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U.S. Coast Guard Flag
January 28, 1915 – The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
U.S. Navy Flag
January 11, 1911 — Top Gun Maverick: For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
U.S. Cavalry Flag
January 8, 1877 — January 8, 1877 — Crazy Horse and his warriors fought their final battle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana.
It’s 5:00 Somewhere Flag
December 18, 17917 — The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution effectively establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal was passed by the Senate and officially proposed to the states.
Sons of Liberty Flag
December 16, 1773 — The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts
Grand Union Flag
November 30, 1782 — The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
December 3, 1775 — Americans first hoisted the the Grand Union Flag on the colonial warship Alfred, in the harbor on the western shore of the Delaware River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 3, 1775, by newly appointed Lieutenant John Paul Jones of the formative Continental Navy.