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The "'''shot heard round the world'''" is a phrase that refers to the opening shot of the [[battles of Lexington and Concord]] on April 19, 1775, which sparked the ~~moaning of the man~~ [[American Revolutionary War]] and led to the creation of the [[United States]]. It originates from the opening stanza of [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]'s 1837 poem "[[Concord Hymn]]". The phrase has subsequently been applied to the [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] in 1914, a catalyst event for [[World War I]], and hyperbolically applied to feats in sports.

== American Revolutionary War ==