Flag Day (United States) holiday. William T. Kerr, a native of Pittsburgh and later a resident of Yeadon, Pennsylvania, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania in 1888, and became the national chairman of the American Flag Day Association one year later, serving as such for fifty years. He attended President Harry S. Truman's 1949 signing of the Act of Congress that formally established the observance. In 1889, the principal of a free kindergarten, George Bolch, celebrated the Revolution and celebrated Flag Day, as well. In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, a descendant of Benjamin Franklin and the president of the Colonial Dames
Flag Day (Australia) a copy of the proclamation signed by Sir William Deane. Ceremonies are held annually in schools, other capitals and major provincial centres. Past guests of honour at Flag Day events include the Governor-General, state Governors and members of parliament who along with other dignitaries have also made commemorative messages available to mark the occasion. Flag Day (Australia) In Australia, Australian National Flag Day is celebrated on 3 September. It commemorates the day in 1901 on which the Australian National Flag was first flown. On that day Prime Minister Edmund Barton announced the winners of the official 1901 Federal Flag Design