Did you know....
- George Washington had to borrow money to go to his own inauguration.
- Ulysses Grant was inaugurated for his second term on a day in 1873 when the noon temperature was 16 degrees. A temporary wooden structure was built for the inaugural ball, and the weather turned it into an icebox. The food froze while guests danced in their coats. The musicians' violin strings snapped because of the chill, and 100 canaries, brought in to provide pleasant sounds, froze to death in their cages.
- Before Richard Nixon's 1973 inaugural parade, officials applied a chemical bird repelent to tree branches along the route. The product, called Roost No More, was supposed to keep pigeons off the trees by making their feet itch. Instead, the birds ate the repellent and keeped over, leaving Pennsylvania Avenue decorated with sick and dead pigeons.
Happy Innauguration Day!!!
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So what did you think of the swearing in?
guess what? at school today every class of the school watched the swearing in. then all of the 5th graders watched President Obamas speech
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