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It's March 4. Here's what happened on This Day in History.
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This Day in History — March 4. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
0:00On this day, March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated during the devs of the Great Depression. In his first inaugural address, he sought to calm a fearful nation with the words, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Also on this day, in 1789, the United States Constitution officially went into effect. Also on this day, in 1933, Congress proposed the 21st Amendment, beginning the repeal of prohibition.
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