It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel. It took 15 years until it became a ...

With the date of presidential inaugurations and Martin Luther King Jr. Day both set by law, the two have - and will - keep ...

Only once before since it became a federal holiday has Martin Luther King Jr. Day fallen on the same day as a presidential inauguration. That was in 1997, when Bill Clinton took the oath of office ...

Is Inauguration Day always on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day? While that happens to be the case in 2025, the occurrence is a ...

Federal holidays collide in a rare overlap today, which is both Inauguration Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The two ...

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... term Inauguration Day events happened on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, which was MLK Day. He was sworn in on Sunday, Jan. 20. Bill Clinton is the only president ...

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Walk to ... The two other times Inauguration Day and MLK Day overlapped were during President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration in 1997 and President Obama ...

In 1997, Bill Clinton was the last president to be sworn in on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Clinton noted that 34 years ago, King had shared words at the other end of the National Mall “that ...

The United States is paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's legacy the same day a new president was inaugurated.