Google Doodles celebrates T&T’s 60th year of Independence

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Google Doodles celebrates T&T’s 60th year of Independence

Today’s Doodle celebrates Trinidad & Tobago’s Independence Day.

Depicted in today’s artwork, Google celebrates Trinidad and Tobago’s national flag which features a red field with a diagonal black stripe and white borders.

On this day in 1962, the flag was raised for the first time when the twin island declared independence from Britain.

“After a series of islandwide strikes and riots led to universal adult suffrage in 1945, the British parliament passed the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act of 1962. Dr. Eric Williams, widely considered the ‘Father of the Nation,’ became the country’s first prime minister and served until his death in 1981.”

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