Almanac of Absurdities for September 13, 2010

British troops failed to take Baltimore today in 1814. The incident inspired Francis Scott Key to write a war-celebrating poem which was later set to an old English Drinking song and became our national anthem. Great Birthdays today: William Cecil, Lord Burleigh in 1520, Milton Hershey, the Chocolate Guy, Roald Dahl, and both Zak Starkey and Stella McCartney.