Never before has a woman been sworn in to take the state’s top office. Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger will be the first ...

1937 – Franklin Roosevelt takes the oath of the Presidency for the second time, but for the first time on January 20th. The 20th Amendment changed the date from March 4 to January 20 when it was ...

Inauguration Day didn’t always take place in January. Initially, Congress intended for the day to be honored in March.

On Jan. 21, 1985, Ronald Reagan's second inauguration became the coldest in modern American history, with temperatures ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

U.S. Marine Band on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division In the program for President William McKinley’s 1901 inauguration, a writer ...

President Ulysses S. Grant delivers his second inaugural address from the east steps of the U.S. Capitol as the temperature topped out at 16 degrees Fahrenheit on March 4, 1873, in Washington, D.C. A ...