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The song was selected as the national anthem by Subhas Chandra Bose while he was in Germany. On the occasion of the founding meeting of the German-Indian Society on 11 September 1942 in the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, "Jana Gana Mana" was played for the first time by the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra as the national anthem of India. [22]
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Initially named the Outer Harbor Crossing, the bridge was renamed in 1976 for poet Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to "The Star-Spangled Banner", the U.S. national anthem. At 8,636 feet (2,632 m), it was the second-longest bridge in the Baltimore metropolitan area, after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
National Park Service The original manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key will leave Baltimore for the first time in nearly 200 years. The handwritten poem will make ...
"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 by American lawyer Francis Scott Key on September 14, 1814, after he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge took five years to build and served Marylanders for nearly five decades. Yet it was gone in a matter of seconds, snapping under the night sky and collapsing into the ...
The deadly collapse of the historic Francis Scott Key Bridge has shaken Baltimore to its core. Baltimore was a port long before it was incorporated as a city — and long before the United States ...
The first stanza of the song was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India as the national anthem on 24 January 1950. [5] The national anthem is played in approximately 52 seconds. [1] [5] National song: Vande Mataram [30] ("Mother, I bow to thee!") [31] 24 January 1950 (Dominion of India) [1] 26 January 1950 (Republic of India) [10]