First inauguration car ride, on TV, aboard an airplane: See historic milestones

President Abraham Lincoln speaks during his second inauguration on March 4, 1865. The inaugural parade that followed included the first time that Black people got to participate in it.

President James A. Garfield is depicted in a portrait with his mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield, left, and wife, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, right, in a lithograph from 1881. Eliza Ballou Garfield was the first mother of an incoming president, James Garfield, to attend the inaugural ceremonies on March 4, 1881.

William McKinley’s inauguration on March 4, 1897, was the first to be recorded by a movie camera.

Telephones were first installed on the Capitol Grounds for Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4, 1905.

William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron Taft escorted to his inauguration on March 4, 1909. Helen Herron Taft was the first spouse to ride with her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House on Inauguration Day.

Suffragists protesting on a rainy day on the eve of President-elect Woodrow Wilson's inauguration on March 3, 1917, in Washington, D.C. The next day women participated in the inaugural parade for the first time although Wilson did not support voting rights for women. It wasn’t until 1918, that Wilson publicly endorsed women’s rights to vote for the first time.

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inauguration in a car on March 4, 1921. His inauguration was also the first to use loudspeakers.

Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration was the first nationally broadcast on radio on March 4, 1925. (From left) First Lady Grace Coolidge, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, Second Lady Caro Dawes and Vice President Charles Dawes on Inauguration Day, March 4, 1925, in Washington D.C.

In 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president to be inaugurated on Jan. 20, a change made by the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

The only president inaugurated for a fourth time was Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jan. 20, 1945, when he began his fourth and final term.

The first televised inauguration occurred on Jan. 20, 1949, when Harry S. Truman took office as president.

The inaugural parade was broadcast in color for the first time in 1961.

Robert Frost was the first poet to participate in the official Capitol ceremonies for John F. Kennedy’s inauguration in 1961.

John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic to be inaugurated as president and the first to use a Catholic version of the Bible for his oath in 1961.

In 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson became the first president to be sworn into office aboard an airplane, specifically Air Force One, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The oath was administered by Sarah T. Hughes, U.S. District Judge of the Northern District of Texas, making her the first woman to perform this duty.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s inauguration in 1965 was the first to use a bulletproof, closed limousine.

During the 1974 inauguration, Gerald Ford became the first unelected vice president to assume the presidency.

When Jimmy Carter took office on Inauguration Day in 1977, Gerald Ford became the first outgoing president to leave the Capitol Grounds by helicopter, starting a tradition for future former presidents.

Jimmy Carter was the first president to walk with his family from the Capitol to the White House after the inauguration ceremony in 1977.

The 1981 inauguration was the first televised event with closed-captioning and was also the first time the inauguration was held on the West Terrace of the Capitol.

Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inauguration marked the first time the oath was taken in the Rotunda and the first time it occurred on a Super Bowl Sunday.

Bill Clinton’s second inauguration on Jan. 20, 1997, was the first to be broadcast live on the Internet. It also marked the first inauguration that coincided with the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday.

After being sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush hugged his dad, former President George H.W. Bush, on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. The inauguration of George W. Bush on Jan. 20, 2001, marked the first time a former president attended their son’s inauguration as president.

Barack Obama was inaugurated as America’s first Black president on Jan. 20, 2009.