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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

3rd May 2019
Tagged as: Canada, Culture, First World War, Poetry, War, Ypres

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.

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14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

14th September 2017
Tagged as: America, Music, Nationalism, Poetry, USA

On the 14^th September 1814, the poem that was to provide the lyrics for the United States’ national anthem was written by 35 year-old Francis Scott Key.

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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

11th April 1950: Stone of Scone rediscovered 4 months after its disappearance

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police begins operating in London

21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

19th July 1799: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone reported in Egypt

18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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