The celebration also marks the eightieth anniversary of Congress' declaring "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem.

VOA: special.2011.03.07

The Continental Congress decided that a document declaring separation from Britain should be declared.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The cuts may be the only hope to avoid declaring bankruptcy.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

But he would wait until the best time for declaring it.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

The city came close to declaring bankruptcy.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The final version of the Emancipation Proclamation came on January first,declaring: " ...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then,thenceforward, and forever free ..."

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The TV host of the Colbert Report agreed to help the U.S.Speedskating Team when a U.S.bank backed out after declaring bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

The new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called for conciliation with the Arabs, but stopped short of declaring support for a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

They are to replace judges who were fired after declaring the military government illegal earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The head of the EU observer team, Phillippe Morillon, says that in the mean time, the Karzai campaign should refrain from declaring victory.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

With Republicans maintaining their wall of opposition, the Senate completed a series of final procedural votes, including one formally declaring debate on the legislation at an end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Election officials say President Ian Khama will be sworn in for a second term on Tuesday after declaring his Botswana Democratic Party had won 45 of the 57 seats in parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Though Mr.Yala is from the country's ethnic majority, which has long controlled the military, he was toppled in a 2003 coup before unilaterally declaring himself president and temporarily seizing the presidential palace in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26