Obey, you say? Madame... I am the President!

Did you know...

...Fun Fact #1 - Grover Cleveland excluded the promise "to obey" from the traditional wedding vows when he married Frances Folsom at the White House on June 2, 1886?

...Fun Fact #2 - On April 14, 1910, William H. Taft became the first president to throw out the season-opening pitch for professional baseball at Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C.?

...Fun Fact #3 - The first former first lady to receive a pension for being a president's widow was Anna Symmes Harrison? She received $25,000 when President John Tyler signed into law the first pension for a president's widow, in June 1841.

April 18 - 1861: Battle of Harper's Ferry

April 19 - 1934: Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"

April 20 - 1853: Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad

April 21 - 1789: John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington)

April 22 - 1864: U.S. mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")

April 23 - 1956: U.S. Supreme Court ends race segregation on buses

April 24 - 1961: John F. Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs

Today in History

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." Mark Twain

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