Flag Flying Days in Mexico - Half Staff

Half Staff

On these following days, the national flag is flown at half staff, mostly commemorating the deaths of important heroes. At any time, the President of Mexico can issue a decree to have the flag flown at half-staff to honor the death of a person who was a major figure of the Mexican government, Mexican society, the head of state of another nation or a tragic event on a major scale. One example is that on the 19th anniversary of the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, President Vicente Fox lowered the flags to half staff to honor the estimated 6,000 people who were killed.

Date Motive
14 February Death of Vicente Guerrero (1831).
22 February Death of Francisco I. Madero (1913).
28 February Death of Cuauhtémoc, last Aztec Emperor (1525).
10 April Death of Emiliano Zapata (1919).
2 May Death of the pilots of the 201st Mexican Expeditionary Air Force during World War II (1945).
21 May Death of Venustiano Carranza (1920).
17 July Death of General Alvaro Obregón (1928).
18 July Death of Benito Juárez (1872).
30 July Death of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1811).
12 September Commemoration of the sacrifice of Saint Patrick's Battalion during the Mexican–American War (1847).
13 September Fall of the Niños Héroes during the Battle of Chapultepec (1847).
19 September Anniversary of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake
2 October Commemoration of the Tlatelolco massacre (1968).
7 October Commemoration of the sacrifice of Senator Belisario Domínguez (1913).
22 December Death of José María Morelos (1815).

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Famous quotes containing the word staff:

    “Each one threw down his staff, and they became snakes; but Aaron’s staff swallowed up theirs.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 7:12.

    “Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 17:40.