03 March - Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated

 

Mount Rushmore National Memorial was actually dedicated on 03 March 1941. The dedication ceremony marked the completion of the monumental sculpture, which features the faces of four U.S. presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The sculptor responsible for Mount Rushmore was Gutzon Borglum, who began the project in 1927, and his son Lincoln Borglum continued the work after Gutzon's death in 1941.