The teach-ins and rallies of that original Earth Day, more informal and less global, helped inaugurate the modern environmental movement in the United States and was the spark for two landmark environmental laws signed by President Richard M. Nixon, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.
But to the history of journalism, and probably to the readers, too, Playboy's fiction was far less important than its interviews, inaugurated in 1962.
Italians devoted to design and to the divine have been in high spirits since Mr. Piano's sanctuary, dedicated to the monk and mystic Padre Pio, was inaugurated in June, less than a year after a small but stunning church designed by Richard Meier opened in Rome.
Mr Hampton is partly to blame, having inaugurated the interval-less performance with his 1996 translation of Yasmina Reza's play "Art"—now considered the granddaddy of the "early-dinner shows".
The cultural center, which was officially inaugurated in January, is less than a mile from the city's historic old town.
Local organisers said the stadium would be inaugurated on 15 April, less than two months before it is due to stage the opening match of the World Cup.
But less than an hour after being inaugurated, he appeared on television to announce that troops, relief supplies and even Mr. Pi? himself would be heading immediately to the quake zone.
It was only after the coup against him -- which came less than a year after he was inaugurated -- that Aristide really learned to play politics.
The international pressure forced President Vicente Fox, less than a year after he was inaugurated, to release Mexico's most prominent political prisoners from jail, including two peasant ecologists who had been detained on trumped-up charges.
There is one instructive universal historic fact: No president has left office with the country using less energy than when he was first inaugurated, although Bush (43) came close due to the recession.
