MORE: We have more to share on the subject of presidents.

We looked to Reader’s Digest for some history on presidential firsts.

Grover Cleveland, the 22nd president, was the first and only president to get married at the White House.

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to visit Europe during his term, a nine-day journey by ship across the Atlantic in 1918 on a visit to France.

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, was the first to be born on the 4th of July, in 1872, to be exact. While he remains the only president born on Independence Day, several presidents have died on Fourth of July, including John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who died on the same day of the same year.

Harry S. Truman was the first president to get a nickname from the Secret Service. He was called “the general,” despite never having attained that rank. He was a captain in World War I.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president to be sworn in by a woman. Sarah T. Hughes was the first woman to serve as a federal district judge in Texas, appointed by JFK in 1961. When Kennedy was assassinated in Texas in 1963, Johnson requested that she administer the Oath of Office.

The 37th president, Richard Nixon, was the first to visit all 50 states.

From the website Timeline, here are a few more firsts.

Twelfth president Zachary Taylor was the first to have held no prior elected office. He had served 40 years in the military, but had never even voted.

Warren Harding, the 29th president, was the first to have women vote for him. He was, after all, a supporter of women’s suffrage.

BIRDS: Kathy Gotshall of Port Allegany shared a sign that spring is coming: “We have seen bluebirds and red-wing blackbirds Friday and Saturday mornings.”

We agree the influx of certain birds feels like a mark of the coming season.

The first day it feels like spring (for us, anyway) is the first day we wake up to the sound of birds singing, regardless of the weather.

Measured by the calendar, the official start of spring is still four weeks from now.