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Inauguration Day trivia! From historic firsts to feats


Inauguration Day trivia! From historic firsts to feats
By Lauren Daley Globe Correspondent,Updated January 19, 2021, 5:08 p.m.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inauguration in 1937 was the first to take place on Jan. 20.Thomas D. McAvoy/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Joe Biden is about to be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States — while Kamala Harris makes history as the first-ever woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American to take the oath as vice president. All this you know. But here are a few Inauguration Day facts you might not know. ....

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Washington is Burning | History Today


Washington is Burning
Graeme Garrard describes the events that led to the torching of the new US capital by British troops in August 1814 and considers the impact of the ‘greatest disgrace ever dealt to American arms’ on the US, Britain and Canada.
When James Madison, fourth President of the United States and ‘Father of the Constitution’, signed a declaration of war against Britain on June 18th, 1812 he could scarcely have imagined that two years later he would be fleeing from his burning capital before the invading enemy. At the start of the ‘War of 1812’, the first the US had declared on another nation, his friend and predecessor as president, Thomas Jefferson, had smugly declared that the war against Britain’s colonies in what is today Canada would be ‘a mere matter of marching’. As Madison abandoned the White House on horseback with his entourage and raced towards Virginia on August 24th, 1814 he stopped and looked back as he beheld the ruined ....

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