No, Betsy Ross did not create the American flag. On Flag Day, you can fly any flags that mean something to you.
We can all thank Bernard Cigrand, a Wisconsin teacher who dreamed up the concept of creating a flag day in the United States. He wanted it to happen nationwide on June 14, and the first of these celebrations was in 1885. That year, his school held the first formal observance of the special day, with flags.
But according to respected history sources, one Francis Hopkinson, a delegate from New Jersey who signed the Declaration of Independence, actually designed the American flag.
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