🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #Radio3sAmericanRoadtrip Francis Hopkinson, Wolfram Rieger & Thomas Hampson: 🎵 My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free #BBCRadio3 #FrancisHopkinson #WolframRieger #ThomasHampson

#OnThisDay in 1737, #FrancisHopkinson, American judge, #signeroftheDeclarationofIndependence, author, flag designer (first American flag), and composer (The Battle of the Kegs), born in Philadelphia, British America (d. 1791).
#HappyBirthday #RIP ✟

Interesting, I thought the flag of the #USA starts with a red stripe, but the online store of
#SquareEnix apparently thinks it starts with white one instead? A cursory look at the Wikipedia article for the #flag seems to only show the #FrancisHopkinson design starting with white.