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What are the world's oldest national anthems?". NationalAnthems.me. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011 . Retrieved 14 August 2011. Ali Squalli, Author of Moroccan National Anthem Dies at 86". Morocco World News . Retrieved 6 July 2020. How an unwieldy romantic poem and a Romanian folk song combined to produce 'Hatikva' ". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 5 July 2020. Canada. Parliament, House of Commons. (1964). House of Commons debates, official report. Vol.11. Queen's Printer. p.11806. The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. The lyrics come from the " Defence of Fort M'Henry", [2] a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Outer Baltimore Harbor in the Patapsco River during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. Key was inspired by the large U.S. flag, with 15 stars and 15 stripes, known as the Star-Spangled Banner, flying triumphantly above the fort during the U.S. victory.

History.com article para 6". History.com. September 25, 2017. Archived from the original on September 16, 2018.A UK No 1 for the group who had never been to the States at the time. Turns out they just liked the name. This state was the inspiration, too, for the socially divisive 'Okie from Muskogee' by Merle Haggard. Philadelphia Freedom, 1975 This No 1 for the Elton John Band was written for Billie Jean King's tennis team, the Freedoms, not the city's famous Liberty Bell.

Following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Dr William Beanes, the elderly and popular town physician of Upper Marlboro and a friend of Key, had been captured in his home on August 28, 1814. Beanes was accused of aiding the arrest of some British soldiers (stragglers withdrawing after the Washington campaign) who were pillaging homes. [3]

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The Star-Spangled Banner” made its sporting-event debut in September 1918, during that year’s first World Series game between the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox. Schedule for the Presidential Inauguration 2007, Navajo Nation Government". Navajo.org. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on December 2, 2008 . Retrieved June 14, 2010. U.S. Code". Uscode.house.gov. Archived from the original on May 29, 2012 . Retrieved June 14, 2010. Fisher, Louis, Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada (2002). "Adopting In God We Trust as the U.S. National Motto". Journal of Church and State. 44 (4): 682–83. doi: 10.1093/jcs/44.4.671– via HeinOnline. (Referencing H. Rept. No. 1959, 84th Cong., 2d Sess. (1956) and S. Rept. No. 2703, 84th Cong., 2d Sess. (1956), 2.)

Michael E. Ruane (September 11, 2014). "Francis Scott Key's anthem keeps asking: Have we survived as a nation?". The Washington Post. With words by the American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson, and music written by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson, the pair initially wrote the song in 1900 to celebrate the birthday of the late 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The President of the Republic of Estonia: National Symbols". 14 January 2006. Archived from the original on 14 January 2006.On September 13, U.S. soldiers at Baltimore’s Fort McHenry withstood some 25 hours of British bombardment. Early the next morning, they hoisted a gigantic U.S. flag over the fort, marking a crucial victory and a turning point in what would be considered a second war of American independence. Francis Scott Key Some time later, Key’s brother-in-law paired the poem with the tune of the English drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven” by John Stafford Smith and began distributing the song as “Defence of Fort M’Henry.” Eventually, the song was published in the Baltimore Patriot newspaper and soon after spread across the country as “The Star-Spangled Banner.” It was played at official events across the nation, officially becoming the national anthem in 1931. National Anthem Lyrics