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Originally Posted by GT182
202 years ago, on this day in 1814, Francis Scott Key penned a poem which later became the American national anthem, the 'Star Spangled Banner'.
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Not tuesday it was today ... WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
1814
Francis Scott Key, an Episcopalian layman and cofounder of the American Sunday School Union, is inspired to write the song that becomes America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” when he sees that Fort McHenry has not struck its colors after a night of heavy bombardment by British ships during the war of 1812.
Authority for the date: Standard encyclopedias.