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– The flag of the state shall be white, five feet and six inches ( 5 ' 6 ") fly and four feet and ten inches ( 4 ' 10 ") deep on the pike, bearing on each side in the center a gold anchor, twenty-two inches ( 22 ") high, and underneath it a blue ribbon twenty-four inches ( 24 ") long and five inches ( 5 ") wide, or in these proportions, with the motto " Hope " in golden letters thereon, the whole surrounded by thirteen ( 13 ) golden stars in a circle.
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* 1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain.
* 1996 – Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
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