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Fort McHenry. Someone created a poem about it which later became the National Anthem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McHenry
"Flag over Ft. McHenry"
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Hatikvah is the national anthem of Israel. The words are taken from a poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber in 1877. The melody comes from La Mantovana, a 17th century Italian song by Giuseppe Cenci. It became the official national anthem in November 2004.
Key wrote the poem first, and they were later adapted into the national anthem.
The famous poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, became our National Anthem on 3 March 1931 by resolution of Congress which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.
Francis Scott Key wrote the poem when he witnessed the British attack Fort McHenry. The commander had earlier demanded a flag so big that the British could clearly see it. Key was a lawyer that was detained on a British ship, and the next morning he could still the flag standing there, that is when he wrote the famous poem. It later became the national anthem we all know today.
Answer The lyrics to Greece's national anthem were written by Dionysios Solomos. The anthem is made up of the first two stanzas of his 158-verse poem, "Hymn to Freedom." A few years later, Nokolaos Mantzaros set the poem to music.
He wrote his poem following the failed British attack on Baltimore. It wasn't set to music until later, and it was more than a century before it became the official national anthem.
It became the National Anthem on 3 March 1931.
The poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812, later put to music, became the National Anthem by a resolution passed by Congress on 3 March 1931.
He wrote his poem in 1814