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Remembrance of Key Events Marking September 14 Historian Note
On this day in 1814 Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner after Fort McHenry bombardment. 1847 Winfield Scott seized Mexico City. 1901 McKinley died. Roosevelt became president. 1927 Isadora Duncan died in Nice. 1940 Selective Service Act created peacetime draft. 1959 Luna II reached the Moon. 1975 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized. 1982 Grace Kelly died. Bashir Gemayel slain.
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Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Maryland
U.S
Winfield Scott
Mexico City
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Isadora Duncan
Nice
France
Congress
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Grace of
Monaco
Lebanon
Bashir Gemayel