What happened to flags on 9 August
2 flags in the atlas carry this date. The sentence under each one is where that is written down, in its own article.
- Gabon 1960
On 9 August 1960 – just over a week before Gabon became an independent country on 17 August – the flag was slightly modified.
From Flag of Gabon on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26
- Singapore 1965
The Singapore flag was reconfirmed as the national flag when Singapore became fully independent from Malaysia on 9 August 1965.
From Flag of Singapore on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-29
How a day gets onto this site
A flag is here because a sentence in its own English Wikipedia article puts it on this date, and that sentence is printed above. Nothing was worked out from a year, and nothing was written for the occasion. Every sentence names the article it came from and the version of that article it was read in, so you can go and check it.
The calendar is still short rather than full. A third of the year has no page here, because a flag only gets a day when a sentence in its article puts something on one, and plenty of articles never do. Nothing is invented to fill the gap.