At his inauguration, Washington took the oath of office as the first President of the United States of America on April 30, 1789, on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.

At his inauguration George Washington declared in his Inaugural Address: " By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President " to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

At the inauguration of the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885, photos taken of the occasion show three large British warships sat in the harbor just off the railhead and its docks.

At the inauguration of Vaux-le-Vicomte, a Molière play was performed, along with a dinner event organized by François Vatel, and an impressive firework show.

At the time of his inauguration in Mercer, Pa. in January 2002 Chris Portman was one of the youngest mayors in the history of the USA.

At its inauguration, in Belfast City Hall, King George V made a famous appeal for Anglo-Irish and north – south reconciliation.

At his inauguration as pope in 1978 ( itself the abandonment of the traditional millennium-old papal coronation ), Pope John Paul II himself kissed cardinals on the cheeks, rather than follow the traditional method of homage of having his feet kissed.

At Tufts, the monument is the site of an " inauguration ceremony " for students who receive Ph. D. s in cosmology, in which a thesis advisor drops an apple on the student's head.

At the time of its inauguration in September 1946, the stadium's grass pitch was one of the largest in the country and a far cry from the 85x55 m dimensions of the Bryne Mill field.

The other eight consist of a rosette, also bearing the motto “ Benefit, Honor and Glory .” At the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, the emblem was placed on a red pillow, positioned on the left side of the podium.

At the time of their inauguration, each president is required under the Constitution to take a presidential oath promising to preserve and defend the Constitution and faithfully execute the law.

At Rome the priesthood was deliberately depoliticized ; the rex sacrorum was not elected, and his inauguration was merely witnessed by a comitia calata, an assembly called for the purpose.

At his inauguration he accepted the charter and seal presented to John Leverett the Younger in 1707, but dropped a number of other customs, including the singing of Gloria Patri and the Latin Oration.

At his inauguration, he committed himself to Northwest College with these words.

At his inauguration on October 27, 2007, Joseph Castleberry became the sixth president of Northwest University.

At the 16 December 1998 inauguration of the most recent version of the monument, the Zulu politician and then Minister of Home Affairs, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, apologized to the Afrikaner nation for the death of Piet Retief and the subsequent suffering.

At Pierce's inauguration, he stated, " The policy of my Administration will not be controlled by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion.

At this inauguration, Shaw announced that the college had procured $ 50, 000 to build Alumnae Hall.

At one point, Bagapsh and his supporters threatened to hold their own inauguration on December 6, 2004.

At his second inauguration, United States President Abraham Lincoln wore a coat specially crafted for him by Brooks Brothers.

At the last moment ( just before the inauguration ceremony ), after a request by the President, he chose not to take office, instead accepting an appointment to become Ambassador in France ; however, the next day he retracted ( citing moral qualms and the pressure from public opinion as the reason ) and decided to occupy his legislative seat after all.

At the inauguration of the original Leeds Festival of autumn 1858 he was the star performer ( with Willoughby Weiss ) in Rossini's Stabat Mater.

At Walhalla's inauguration on October 18, 1842, there were 96 busts, plus 64 plaques for persons or events of which no portrait was available on which to model a sculpture.

At a meeting in Geneva in 1966, the two countries agreed to receive recommendations from a representative of the UN Secretary General on ways to settle the dispute peacefully.

At the time, the UN Security Council issued statements that " chemical weapons had been used in the war.

At the time of the conflict, the UN Security Council issued statements that " chemical weapons had been used in the war.

At the 17th session ( February 1978 ), the related UN / ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for International Standard ISO 4217, " Codes for the representation of currencies and funds ", would be suitable for use in international trade.

At the conferences, St-Laurent, compelled by his belief that the UN would be ineffective in times of war and armed conflict without some military means to impose its will, advocated the adoption of a UN military force.

At the 2008 ASEAN Regional forum summit in Singapore, Bangladesh and Burma have pledged to solve their maritime boundary disputes as quickly as possible especially that a UN deadline in claiming maritime territories will expire in three years time.

At the UN September 2001 World Conference against Racism, when the issue of compensation for colonialism and slavery arose in the agenda, Fidel Castro, the President of Cuba, advocated the Tobin Tax to address that issue.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

At the United Nations Headquarters, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid addressed an event of the Unification Church in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of Indonesia to the UN.

At Geneva, the Idcs were successful in their proposal for the conference with its Secretariat to become a permanent organ of the UN, with meetings every four years.

At the urging of the UN, the Belgian government divided Rwanda-Urundi into two separate countries, Rwanda and Burundi.

At the same time, there is continued debate on whether UN membership or recognition as a state by the UN is a decisive feature of statehood ( since it represents broad recognition by the international community ); the debate arises because non-state entities can often satisfy the Montevideo Convention factors, while the list of states recognised by the UN, for the most part, correlate well with entities recognised as states by customary international law.

At a high-level meeting on August 2, 2006, top US and UN officials declared: " Aristide Movement Must Be Stopped.

At Mulet ’ s request, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged South Africa ’ s President Thabo Mbeki " to ensure that Aristide remained in South Africa.

* The success of the Intifada gave Arafat and his followers the confidence they needed to moderate their political programme: At the meeting of the Palestine National Council in Algiers in mid-November 1988, Arafat won a majority for the historic decision to recognise Israel's legitimacy ; to accept all the relevant UN resolutions going back to 29 November 1947 ; and to adopt the principle of a two-state solution.

At the end of the year 2000, Lubbers was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Kofi Annan, to succeed Mrs. Sadako Ogata as UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ).

At this point, the US Administration asserted that Iraq remained in material breach of the UN Resolutions, and that, under 1441, this meant the Security Council had to convene immediately " in order to consider the situation and the need for full compliance with all of the relevant Council resolutions in order to secure international peace and security ".

At the UN, the Maldives has highlighted the vulnerability of small states to various threats including terrorism, activities of mercenaries and transnational organized crime.

At the end of March 1995, a UN commander took over, and the United States provided 2, 400 of the 6, 000-man UN force that would remain in Haïti until February, 1996.

At the UN Ashdown was responsible for relations with several UN organisations, and was also involved in the negotiation of several international treaties, and some aspects of the Helsinki Conference.