On September 14, 1814, Attorney Francis Scott Key wrote the poem Defense of Fort McHenry to the tune of a popular English Hymn, To Anacreon in Heaven (The Anacreontic Song) by John Stafford Smith. The combination of Key's poem and Smith's composition became known as The Star-Spangled Banner and was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America in 1931.
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