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When did the US flag last change?

When did the US flag last change?
4 July 1960
The fiftieth star was added for Hawaii

A star is added on the 4 July following a state's admission, which is why the change came almost a year after Hawaii's statehood. The fifty-star arrangement was designed in 1958 by Robert G. Heft, a seventeen-year-old Ohio student, as a school project that initially earned a B minus; his teacher agreed to raise the grade if Congress adopted it, and did.

What
The fiftieth star was added for Hawaii
When
4 July 1960
Category
Countries and borders
Could this change?
Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.

Countries and borders

Question When
When did a country last join the United Nations? 14 July 2011
When was the US Constitution last amended? 7 May 1992
When did Britain last change its currency system? 15 February 1971
When was a US state last admitted? 21 August 1959
When did a European country last change calendar? 1923
When did the size of the US Supreme Court last change? 1869
When did the Union Jack last change? 1 January 1801

This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.

Common questions

When did the US flag last change?
4 July 1960 — The fiftieth star was added for Hawaii.
What happened?
A star is added on the 4 July following a state's admission, which is why the change came almost a year after Hawaii's statehood. The fifty-star arrangement was designed in 1958 by Robert G. Heft, a seventeen-year-old Ohio student, as a school project that initially earned a B minus; his teacher agreed to raise the grade if Congress adopted it, and did.

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Sources

  1. Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)

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