Is Inauguration day always on a Sunday?

Answer 1

If you mean U.S. Inauguration Day, no -- it's always on January 20 (the transfer of power takes place at 12:00 noon), according to the 20th amendment to the Constitution. # "...James Monroe won re-election [1821] and took the oath on March 4, in private and was publicly inaugurated the following day." # "In 1848, Zachary Taylor, twelfth president, asked that the inauguration of March 4, 1849 be moved to the following day since it fell on a Sunday. James Polk's term of office ended at Noon on March 4, thus creating a one-day vacancy whereby David Rice Atchinson, president pro-tempore of the senate, and at that time third in the succession line, was technically acting-president for one day. [Today the Speaker of the House is third in presidential succession]" # Rutherford Hayes was elected by a 15 member panel [1877] and "because of the controversial decision, outgoing President Grant convinced Hayes to secretly take the oath of office in the Red Room of the White House on Sunday March 4, the day before the public ceremony" which had been scheduled for Samuel Jones Tilden. # When Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1917, he also took the oath on Sunday and then had the public ceremony on Monday. # "Dwight Eisenhower took the oath for his second term in 1957, on Sunday and was formally inaugurated again in public on Monday January 21." # "Ronald Reagan followed the same scenario [as Eisenhower] in 1985 after winning re-election." * "January 20 falls on a Sunday four times in the Twenty-first Century; 2013, 2041, 2069, and 2097. It always occurs every 28 years." We shall have to see if every single one of our future Presidents continues this tradition. There doesn't seem to be anything set in stone about it.