Happy Flag Day, America!

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress replaced the British Grand Union flag with a new design featuring 13 white stars in a circle on a field of blue and 13 red and white stripes – one for each state. The flag was made by Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross, an official flag maker for the Pennsylvania Navy.

Over time, the U.S. flag, also called "Old Glory" or "the star spangled banner," has changed, with as many as 15 stripes at one time, and with stars added as states joined the Union. It now consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars representing the 50 states in the United States, with the 13 stripes representing the original 13 colonies that became the first states in the Union.