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The very first recognition of the Flag Day celebration started in 1777, less than one year after Betsy Ross received the order from General Washington to make the first flag. The Second Continental Congress stated, “Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The first national observance of the holiday was 100 years later.Flag Day was officially esta …