Events:

1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as America’s 32nd President.

1791: Vermont became the 14th state.

1793: George Washington was sworn in for a second term as president of the United States during a ceremony in Philadelphia.

1865: President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office; with the end of the Civil War in sight, Lincoln declared: “With malice toward none, with charity for all.”

1913: The “Buffalo nickel” officially went into circulation.

1925: President Calvin Coolidge’s inauguration was broadcast live on 21 radio stations coast-to-coast.

1952: Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married in San Fernando Valley, California.

1974: The first issue of People magazine, then called People Weekly, was published by Time-Life Inc.; on the cover was actress Mia Farrow.

1977: Some 1,500 people were killed in an earthquake that shook southern and eastern Europe.

1987: President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had “deteriorated” into an arms-for-hostages deal.

1994: In New York, four extremists were convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people and injured more than a thousand. Actor-comedian John Candy died in Durango, Mexico, at age 43.