Mr Berlusconi was giving a speech inaugurating his country's six-month presidency of the EU to assembled MEPs, but his plans for Italy's tenure of the union were completely overshadowed by a comment made to a German socialist MEP, Martin Schulz, in the subsequent question-and-answer session.
He made a major impact there in 1980, inaugurating a section called "Aperto", devoted to work by young artists.
Since inaugurating the age of austerity in 2010, the chancellor of the exchequer has imposed a public sector pay freeze, signalled an end to universal child benefit and tightened spending across government.
Building a futures exchange from scratch is much harder than inaugurating another stockmarket indeed, newcomers and regional exchanges have been able to grab a sizeable chunk of share-trading volume from the biggest markets.
We will fix it, they say, by inaugurating a new age of austerity in taxes and spending.
But inaugurating the new platforms could scarcely have been more chaotic.The past few weeks have seen a flurry of applications for SEF status.
An official announced that it would halt eradication of coca (the raw material for cocaine), which is increasingly being cultivated, only for Mr Humala to countermand him days later.While the previous president, Alan García, hogged the headlines, constantly presenting plans and inaugurating public works, Mr Humala has closeted himself in the presidential palace, issuing occasional Tweets.
"Life-Size" broke the fictional ice on eating disorders, inaugurating a genre dubbed "Anorexia Lit".
Lufthansa, only two months after inaugurating scheduled services within West Germany in April 1955, began transatlantic flights to New York City.
In 1962, however, he denounced de Gaulle for trying to circumvent that constitution by inaugurating a presidential regime elected by direct vote.
In British Guiana settlers discovered gold in 1879, thereby inaugurating the exploitation of mineral resources that have since become the dominant industries of Guyana and Suriname.
