June 4th is National Flag Day in Estonia

Sunday is National Flag Day in Estonia, which will be marked with a ceremony at Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn early in the morning. Pikk Hermann is open to the public on Sunday also.

Sunday, June 4 is the 139th anniversary of the adoption and consecration of Estonia's blue-black-white national flag , marked early in the morning with a flag-raising ceremony Governor's Garden on Toompea, starting 7 a.m.

The first Estonian flag was produced in spring 1884 by the Estonian Students' Society, and was blessed and consecrated in Otepää on June 4 of the same year.

The National Flag Day is thus marked on June 4 each year.