Timeline Tuesday 3 March 1931

Events on Tuesday 3 March 1931 1

• 1931 The Star-Spangled Banner becomes US national anthem Congress formally adopts Francis Scott Key's song President Herbert Hoover signed an act of Congress making The Star-Spangled Banner the official national anthem of the United States. The words come from a poem Francis Scott Key wrote in 1814 after the bombardment of Fort McHenry. The song had already been widely used on official occasions.