* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

" The Star-Spangled Banner " has special meaning to Baltimore historically, as it was written during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key, a Baltimorean.

Maryland Historical Society plaque marking the birthplace of Francis Scott Key

Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships ( with the Francis Scott Key Bridge ( Baltimore ) | Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left )

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

* Francis George Scott

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Scott was born in the North East Tyneside coastal town of South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott.

After Huntford's book, debunking Captain Scott became commonplace ; Francis Spufford, in a 1996 history not wholly antagonistic to Scott, refers to " devastating evidence of bungling ", concluding that " Scott doomed his companions, then covered his tracks with rhetoric ".

At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.

* September 14 was the day that Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States

* 1814 – The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key.

* 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", later to be the lyrics of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", which is later set to music and becomes the United States ' national anthem.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.

Tangier was used for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for Francis Scott Key's writing of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

This tune was later added to Francis Scott Key's poem The Defence of Fort McHenry to become The Star-Spangled Banner, which was later proclaimed the United States ' national anthem.

Ironically, Francis Scott Key's grandson, Francis Key Howard, was one of these political detainees.

America began to rally around national heroes such as Andrew Jackson and patriotic feelings emerged in such works as Francis Scott Key's poem The Star Spangled Banner.

With Red House Painters, he had previously done similar reconstructions with Simon & Garfunkel's " I Am a Rock ," The Cars ' " All Mixed Up ," Kiss's " Shock Me ," Yes's " Long Distance Runaround ," Paul McCartney's " Silly Love Songs ," and Francis Scott Key's " The Star-Spangled Banner.

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

Another example is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, which, like the original film, polarized the audience, with some fans considering the original version to be the definitive cut.

The original principal alternative candidate was Francis Bacon, but by the beginning of the twentieth century other candidates, typically aristocrats, were put forward, most notably Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland and William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.

A statue of Sir Francis Drake by Joseph Boehm ( a copy of the original in his home town of Tavistock ) was placed here in 1884 to commemorate him.

The original " inner quad " buildings ( 1887 – 91 ) were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis A. Walker, Charles Allerton Coolidge, and Leland Stanford himself.

Of the original twelve, some are regularly identified: Dashwood, Robert Vansittart, Thomas Potter, Francis Duffield, Edward Thompson, Paul Whitehead and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich.

In the late 1840s the Tussaud brothers Joseph and Francis, gathering relics for Madame Tussauds wax museum, visited the aged Henry-Clément Sanson, grandson of the executioner Charles Henri Sanson, from whom they obtained parts, the knife and lunette, of one the original guillotines used during the Age of Terror.

It was found to incorporate designs by many of the leading painters of its day, including Jasper Francis Cropsey, Frederic Edwin Church, and Henry Courtney Selous ( Selous was the in-house painter for the original Barker panorama in London for many years.

Acquired in the early 16th century by Jean Le Breton, France's Controller-General for War under King Francis I, a new château was constructed around the original 14th-century keep where King Philip II of France once met Richard I of England to discuss peace.

The original eleven member schools were Fairleigh Dickinson University, Long Island University, Loyola College in Maryland ( left in 1989 ), Marist College ( left in 1997 ), Robert Morris University, St. Francis College ( N. Y .), St. Francis College ( Pa .), Siena College ( left in 1984 ), Towson State University ( left in 1982 ), the University of Baltimore ( left in 1983 ) and Wagner College.

The collection includes an original copy of the 1953 Nature paper where Nobel winners James D. Watson and Francis Crick first described the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.

Phillips died of respiratory failure at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on July 30, 2003, only one day before the original Sun Studio was designated a National Historic Landmark, and just weeks before the death of his former colleague, Johnny Cash, on September 12, 2003.

Francis also recorded the song with its original English lyrics, and a German language version, Sag, weißt du denn, was Liebe ist.

The Grade I listed banqueting hall, which boasts a fine hammerbeam roof, survives from the original house along with part of the orangery built by Sir Francis Carew and claimed to be the first in England.

The Grade I listed banqueting hall, which boasts a fine hammerbeam roof, survives from the original house along with part of the orangery built by Sir Francis Carew and claimed to be the first in England.

Elkridge has historic churches, including Melville Church on Furnace Ave. Its original building was the first Methodist church built ( 1772 ) and was visited on the circuit rides of Francis Asbury.

The town of Tyrone was named by Gen. William Kernan, one of the original settlers and the father of United States Senator Francis Kernan.

The original art glass windows of the Basilica were designed and executed by the Royal Bavarian Establishment of Francis Mayer and Company of Munich, Germany.

In 1998, he returned as the character Francis " Ponch " Poncherello in the TNT made-for-TV movie CHiPs ' 99, along with the rest of the original cast.

In early 1899, Francis Barraud applied for copyright of the original painting using the descriptive working title Dog looking at and listening to a Phonograph.

Nipper ’ s original owner, Mark Henry Barraud, died in 1887, leaving his brothers Philip and Francis to care for the dog.

On February 11, 1899, Francis filed an application for copyright of his painting “ Dog Looking At and Listening to a Phonograph .” Thinking the Edison-Bell Company located in New Jersey, USA, might find it useful, he presented it to James E. Hough, who promptly said, “ Dogs don ’ t listen to phonographs .” On May 31, 1899, Barraud went to the Maiden Lane offices of The Gramophone Company with the intention of borrowing a brass horn to replace the original black horn on the painting.