The U.S. flag has changed 27 times since it was first unveiled in 1777.
According to the Eisenhower Library, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration started planning for a 49- and 50-state flag in 1953, several years before Alaska and Hawaii joined the union.In 1953, Eisenhower appointed a joint committee to craft a plan for the new flag. Five years later, the White House announced that the Secretaries of State, Defense and Treasury, along with the Chairman of the Commission on Fine Arts would submit an informal proposal to the president.
At a Cabinet meeting in 1958, Eisenhower told members he preferred seven staggered rows of seven stars, a design that would easily allow for a 50th star. became a state on Jan. 3, 1959. The same day, Eisenhower issued an executive order establishing the 49-state flag.became the 50th state in the union months later, on Aug. 21, 1959. Eisenhower established the 50-state flag the same day. There were more than 3,000 flag designs submitted to the president.
"The designs came in a wide range of media from simple pencil sketches to professionally constructed flags," the Eisenhower Library said. "This was an especially popular project for elementary school children who expressed their ideas with construction paper, crayons, tempera paint, and tiny stick-on stars."
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