While the presidential inauguration dates back to 1789, official weather records for Washington, D.C. go as far back as Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873. That still gives us ...

Continuing a long, bipartisan, even nonpartisan, tradition that dates back to the 1873 inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent high-level ...

Continuing a long tradition, Latter-day Saint apostles attended the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump.

The Polar Express that blasted into Washington for President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural in 1985 forced the whole inaugural ceremony indoors, and the parade was canceled.

Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

It remains the coldest inauguration on record, with a high temperature of just 7°. There are some records of President Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration having a numbing high of only 16 ...

The last time a sitting president had not attended the swearing-in ceremony of the incoming president was in 1869 when Andrew Johnson refused to attend the inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant.

Imagine Donald Trump wearing a top hat. He would have had to if his inauguration had been a few decades earlier, when the hat was required attire at the ceremony for the incoming president.

The weather forecast in Washington, D.C., calls for a high of 24. That's much colder than the predicted high of 70 at Trump's Florida estate.

It’s not the first inauguration ceremony to be held indoors ... Official weather record-keeping began in 1873, beginning with Ulysses S. Grant’s second term. It’s also at that time that ...