From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions.

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat tradition? Here are some tidbits you might not know about Inauguration Day.

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Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s an occurrence that would’ve seemed doubly implausible in ...

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“Do not move seat cards,” instructed a list of etiquette rules placed on each of the approximately 600 folding chairs. The ...

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. On his first day in the White House, he ...

The funeral procession in New York City for Ulysses S. Grant in 1885 drew ... The death of Abraham Lincoln after being shot at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. helped establish the standard ...

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Well before his 1789 inauguration, George ... Ulysses S. Grant and others. Times of presidential despair, however, have not always had the consoling resolutions achieved by Washington and Lincoln.

Wander through the corridors of the White House, as Trump will soon do, and you might hear the presidential portraits on its ...