Here is the 10 Things you never knew about the US Presidential Inauguration.

1.  Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 in 1937. Before that, Inauguration Day was March 4.

2. George Washington delivered the shortest inauguration speech in history-at only 135 words-during his second inauguration in 1793

3. James Buchanan’s inauguration in 1857 was the first to be photographed.

4. African-Americans first marched in the inaugural parade at Abraham Lincoln’s second swearing in 1865.

5. Women participated for the first time in an inaugural parade during Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration in 1917.

6. Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by former president William Taft, who had become the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1925.

7. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic to become president.

8. Gerals Ford was the first unelected vice president to become president.

9. Ronald Reagan’s first inauguration was the warmest inauguration day on record. His second inauguration was the coldest.

10. Bill Clinton’s inauguration was the first to be broadcast live on the internet.

Funny Trivia:

Dumbest president?

William H. Harrison wore no winter gear at all to his inauguration in 1841. He delivered the longest inauguration address on record in the cold and wet 9 c weather. A month later, he died on pneumonia. The illness is said to have been brought on by overexposure to the weather on his inauguration day.

The Source: Metro and JCCIC