On March 3, 1931, a law signed by President Herbert Hoover stated that the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America. That’s one way of getting a ...

Sunday is "National Anthem Day" which marks the day that the "Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the country's national anthem Francis Scott Key wrote the poem that would eventually become The ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” wasn’t actually adopted as the official anthem of the United States until 1931, though it was already popular and had already been used by several American ...

Inspiring a national motto? Not so fast. Deep within "The Star-Spangled Banner" is another famous phrase, one that many believe eventually was adopted as our national motto. "And this be our motto ...

The Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem of the United States ... However, the anthem wasn’t adopted until 87 years ago, on 3 March 1931. In the 19th century, ‘Hail, Columbia’ was used at ...

The rousing Star-Spangled Banner is arguably the US's best known ... Soul-stirring words' Adopted by the navy in 1889, the song was quoted in 1904 by Puccini in his opera Madama Butterfly.