Today is Flag Day in Argentina. National Flag day commemorates the death of Manuel Belgrano, who created the current flag.
The national flag of Argentina dates from 1812. It is a triband, with three equally wide horizontal bands of light blue, white and light blue. In 1818, a ‘ Sun of May’ was added to the center.
During the Argentine War of Independence General Belgrano was leading a battle near Rosario. He noticed that both the Crown’s forces and the independence forces were using the same colors (Spain’s yellow and red).
After realizing this, Belgrano created a new flag using the colors that were used by the Criollos during the May Revolution in 1810.
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Debbie!!!
Today is the birthday, in 1947, of Dolores Brooks, second lead singer of the girl group the Crystals. She sang lead vocalist on both the Crystals’ 1963 Phil Spector produced hits ‘Then He Kissed Me’ and ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-qqi7-Q19k
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