Flag Days

Canada Day cheers to my friends from the True North, strong and free!

I like having a big flag pole in front of our house. It was installed by a former owner, who was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Here are flag flying days:

Feb 4 – Sri Lanka Independence Day (1948)

April 4 – NATO (1949)

March 10 – Tibet National Uprising Day (1959)
March 21 – J. S. Bach’s birthday (1685)
March 25 – Alameda County formation day (1853)

May 4 – City of Oakland Birthday (1852)
May 9 – Europe Day (European Commission, 1985)
May 24 – Eritrean Independence Day (1991)
Last Monday in May – Memorial Day (1868; current date 1970); half-staff til noon local time

June 14 – U.S. Flag Day (1777)
June 23 – Olympic Day (1894) + the start of the Summer and Winter Games

July 1 – Canada Day (1867)
July 1 – Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day (1997)
July 4 – American Independence Day (1776)

Aug. 15 – Israel Independence Day (1947)

Sept. 9 – California Admission Day (1850)
Sept. 16 – Mexican Independence Day (1810) – day of the Grito de Dolores
Sept. 19 – Nepal Constitution Day (2015)

Second Monday in October – Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Oct. 10 – Taiwan National Day (1911)
Oct. 24 – U.N. Day (1945)

Nov. 9 – Cambodia Independence Day (1953)
Nov. 22 – Lebanese Independence Day (1943)
Day after Thanksgiving – Native American Heritage Day

Dec 17 – Bhutan National Day (coronation of Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuk, 1st king of Bhutan, 1907)

El grito de Dolores: “¡Viva Mexico!“
All this I owe to my fit younger brother, who ran the halyard in 1992

4′ x 6′ Flag Inventory
– U.S. (flown over the Capitol, 1993)

3′ x 5′ Flag Inventory
– U.S. (“Betsy Ross,” from the BR House, Philadelphia, 2021)
– U.S. (from my parents’ house)
– U.S. (Harbor Freight, 2024, made in China)
– U.S., Grand Union
– U.S., Bennington (“76”)
– Franklin “Join, or Die”
– Pine Tree “An Appeal to Heaven”

– California
– Muwekma Ohlone
– City of Oakland
– S E L L
– Oakland Athletics

– Canada
– Mexico
– United Kingdom
– Hong Kong
– Taiwan (made in Taiwan)
– Cambodia
– Nepal
– Lebanon
– Israel
– Sri Lanka
– Bhutan
– Tibet (made in Taiwan)
– Ukraine

– Olympics
– United Nations
– NATO
– European Union
– J. S. Bach (which I had custom made)

2′ x 3 ‘ Flag Inventory
– Delaware
– California
– Oakland

In 2024, I became a member of the North American Vexillological Association.

And then there’s flag storage . . .