Barack Obama would be the first African American President of the US.
- Obama's would be the seventh inauguration ceremony on the West Front of the US Capitol.
- The 20th Amendment states that the President and Vice President's terms begin at noon on January 20.
- Obama to be sworn in as President by US Chief Justice John Roberts.
- 58 different federal, state and local agencies are involved in providing fool-proof security.
- President Obama to attend 10 official inaugural balls and speak at all of them.
- Theme of the luncheon is "A new birth of freedom".
- Chief Justice John Marshall administered nine presidential oaths between 1807 to Thomas Jefferson and 1833 to Andrew Jackson - more than any other Chief Justice.
- Lyndon Johnson was the first and only President to be sworn in by a woman Chief Justice, Federal Judge Sarah Hughes.
- Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One in Dallas in 1963 after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
- William Taft is the only person in US history to take the Presidential oath and to administer it is as Chief Justice.
- The first President inaugurated on January 20 was Franklin Roosevelt in 1937.
- Thomas Jefferson became the first President inaugurated in Washington in 1801.
- George Washington's second inaugural address was only 135 words and lasted about two minutes.
- John Adams was the first to receive oath of office from the Chief Justice of US in 1797
- In 1809 James Madison had the first organised inaugural parade.