Electric lighting came to the city's public thoroughfares for the first time, while the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais, the Metro system, the Pont Alexandre III and the Gare (now Musee) d'Orsay were all inaugurated for the occasion.
Tomorrow while Obama is getting himself all inaugurated, recent Vice contributor and hardcore legend Sam McPheeters will be corresponding with us from the nation's capital (/-ol).
To illustrate this we have put together a video produced by Philip de Vellis, creator of the Think Different/Hillary 1984 ad, and now a media strategist at Murphy Putnam Media, that delivers this message: we are all stakeholders, and we are all being inaugurated tomorrow.
While its memorable ad — a close-up of a bronzed, soaking wet Adonis lying on a pebbly beach — did not break the rules, its formula did, and all but inaugurated a new category of blue fragrance.
He did not go on to explain in that introduction that the most notorious features of Stalin's regime — the use of terror, the show trials, and the concentration camps — had all been inaugurated by Lenin.
Yet her work has always had a political undertow — after all, she inaugurated her recording career with a song called "It's Not the Bullet That Kills You (It's the Hole)." For decades, she has been holding a skeptical mirror up to late-capitalist America: its shiny pop surfaces, its techniques of social control.
The provision of old-age pensions, relief for the hungry and poor, and a dole for the unemployed were all policies inaugurated by the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, following the example of similar enlargements of government functions in Britain, France, and Germany.
A recently inaugurated all-day cattle drive has proved a big success, too.
All the same, he inaugurated a period in Britain where the reasonable freedoms of ordinary people, including the freedom to disbelieve in the supernatural, could be accommodated.
Above all else, he inaugurated, under the title autogestion, a series of major agrarian reforms, including the nationalization but not the direct state control of the former colonists' huge farms.
He mourned that all this would "inaugurate an unending press obsession, with Middleton's face surely bound for the cover of Hello! and OK!".
