Credit: Library of ... mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

But inaugural addresses and analysis of the speeches were not always available immediately. In 1789, when George Washington ... just a year before at the Library of Congress.

George Washington is the only president ... dipping to a record-low 7 degrees Fahrenheit, per the Library of Congress. Reagan's public inauguration was instead held inside the U.S. Capitol ...

According to the Library of Congress, "Hail to the Chief" is the ... to both commemorate the end of the War of 1812 and honor George Washington, who died in 1799. Four years after Van Buren ...

George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit ... become an immediate fashion moment if a bold-faced name wore it to an inauguration today—was called “Congress Brown.” Though Washington would later sport ...

With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.