Dayhoff Westminster Soundtrack: 2014: An eventful year before it even begins by Susan Reimer Baltimore Sun

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2014: An eventful year before it even begins by Susan Reimer Baltimore Sun

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Susan Reimer

6:00 a.m. EST, December 29, 2013

As the smartphone calendar app closes on 2013, we can open it up for 2014 and start tapping in a busy year of notable events.

… Baltimore, we will be celebrating the 200th birthday of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in early September with tall ships, the Blue Angels, fireworks and much more.

It was in the early hours of Sept. 14, 1814, that Francis Scott Key gazed through the haze of a British bombardment at Fort McHenry and spied the Stars and Stripes, which inspired him to write the poem that was to become the national anthem…

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All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 in the Senate will be contested in November, as well as 38 governorships — including in Maryland.

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Voters in Scotland will vote on possible independence from the United Kingdom.

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In 1914, the War to End All Wars began with the assassination June 28 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Just a month earlier, Congress passed a joint resolution creating Mother's Day.

The Panama Canal will celebrate its 100th birthday, and so will frozen food. It took 10 years and cost 5,600 lives to create the shortcut between the American coasts. And a century ago, Clarence Birdseye sold the first frozen fish.

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