This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.

Flag Day is on June 14 every year. In 2025, Flag Day is on Saturday. The United States Army is celebrating 's 250th birthday is Saturday, June 14, 2025 − which is the same day as Flag Day. On this day 246 years ago, Congress created our national flag by commemorating Betsy Ross' creation of the Stars & Stripes.

President Woodrow Wilson and President Calvin Coolidge each issued presidential proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as Flag Day, according to the VA. On Aug. 3, 1949, Congress approved the national observance of Flag Day, and President Harry Truman signed it into law.

President Trump proclaims June 14, 2025, as Flag Day, urging Americans to display the flag and honor its historical significance.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a proclamation the next year that the U.S. flag symbolizes freedom and “protection from tyranny.”

As of this writing, Pete Hegseth's Department of Defense still has their tweet up celebrating 'Flag Day' with two Russian flags. No explanation has been given, nor has their tweet been taken down.

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted along historic graves of military veterans, draped upside down over a protester, or painted on a barn.

What's the history behind the American flag? What do the different colors of the flag represent? Here's what we know about Flag Day.

As some people across the country, joined together for a No Kings Day of Defiance protest against President Donald J. Trump on Saturday, June 14th, Trump was honoring the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary.

In honor of Flag Day on Saturday, a dignified flag retirement ceremony took place in Penacook. Win Waste Innovation, the American Legion, Daughters of the American Revolution and Scouting America hosted the ceremony, collecting 2.5 tons of flags that were no longer serviceable.

The city of Batavia welcomed hundreds of locals as well as those from surrounding areas to its annual Flag Day celebration Saturday that included a few new attractions.