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Gene Stipe (1926–2012), longest-serving member of the Oklahoma State Senate, from McAlester, Oklahoma Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), Air Force major general killed in action in World War II Elizabeth Warren (born 1949), US senator for Massachusetts, Special Advisor for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Beginning with Super Bowl XLIII in 2009, "America the Beautiful" is sung before the national anthem every year and is followed by the presentation of the colors and a military flyover preceded the anthem. Beginning in 2021, "Lift Every Voice And Sing" was sung prior to "America the Beautiful" and the national anthem in honor of Black History Month.
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the French national anthem "La Marseillaise", sings it for the first time. The anthem is one of the earliest to be adopted by a modern state, in 1795. Most nation states have an anthem, defined as "a song, as of praise, devotion, or patriotism"; most anthems are either marches or hymns in style. A song or hymn can become a national anthem under ...
Vicki Miles-LaGrange, born in 1953 in Oklahoma City, was the first woman U.S. Attorney in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.. After she graduated from the Howard University ...
The soundtrack also features OKC Grammy-winning art-rockers The Flaming Lips' emotional anthem "Do You Realize??," which in 2009 was named Oklahoma's official state rock song.
List of Native American artists from Oklahoma; List of people from Norman, Oklahoma; O. List of people from Oklahoma City; S. List of Oklahoma suffragists; T.
Singer, actress and Oklahoma native Mary Millben will perform the national anthem Thursday, July 18, at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.. A University of Oklahoma ...
But it eventually became world-famous as "The Star-Spangled Banner," and it was designated the United States' official national anthem in 1931. After centuries of struggling and fighting with hostile Native Americans, as well as diseases and forces of nature, many American residents had breached the Appalachian mountain chain, and then pushed ...