Flag Day (United States) Flag Day is not an official federal holiday. Title 36 of the United States Code, Subtitle I, Part A, CHAPTER 1, § 110 is the official statute on Flag Day; however, it is at the president's discretion to officially proclaim the observance. On June 14, 1937, Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday, beginning in the town of Rennerdale. New York Statutes designate the second Sunday in June as Flag Day, a state holiday. Perhaps the oldest continuing Flag Day parade is in Fairfield, Washington. Beginning in 1909 or 1910, Fairfield has held
Flag of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic decree of the Bashkir Central Election Commission, a Decree of the Bashkir Central Committee dated October 11, 1924, was approved. The decree, "On the change of the State flag of the BASSR", approved the first official state flag of the Autonomous Bashkir SSR. The flag was a rectangular red flag with a golden sickle and red five-pointed star with a gold border. The flag of the Baskhir ASSR was described in the constitution of the Bashkir ASSR, which was adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the Baskhir ASSR on 23 June 1937, at the 10th Congress of the Soviets