Hearst saw his wife and child, sent a joyful message to his mother in California, and soon returned to Washington, where on April 22, for the first time, he opened his mouth in Congress.

Hardly a window has been broken since Dunbar first was opened ( and vandalism in schools is a major problem in many slum areas ).

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

He climbed the steps of the first and opened the door to the vestibule.

There was still a little, not much, left in the first bottle and we passed it around once and killed it, and Charlie opened his.

At first hardly a person in the audience moved, although some umbrellas were opened.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

* 1871 – The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened.

* 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.

* 1962 – The first official Panda crossing is opened outside Waterloo station, London.

* 1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.

The first was opened in 1883 in Dunfermline.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

In 1923 he returned to Jyväskylä, where he opened his first architectural office.

* 1847 – Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.

At the turn of the 19th century, immigrants from Naples and Genoa opened the first pizza bars, though Spanish residents subsequently owned most of the pizza businesses.

The first was Avenue X which opened on 28 January 1994 and ran for 77 performances.

The first British production of the play in its regular form opened on 7 June 1889 at the Novelty Theatre, starring Janet Achurch as Nora and Charles Carrington as Torvald.

The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.

The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.

In 1998 the first six kilometers of an often-interrupted 52-kilometer standard gauge subway project ( Sofia Metro ) opened in Sofia.

The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world ; the world's first locomotive-hauled public railway opened in 1825.

In 1931, the castle gardens were first opened to the public, and are now open daily between April and the end of July, after which the Queen arrives for her annual stay.

The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building.

With the acquisition of Montagu House the first exhibition galleries and reading room for scholars opened on 15 January 1759.

his bride opened the store.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed.

In 1967, Jones opened his first store, called Zilch, at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.

In the 1980s, Haring opened his first Pop Shop: a store that offered everyone access to his works — which until then could only be found spray-painted on city walls.

In 1881, the first department store opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba ; a building considered as the flagship store of Hudson's Bay Company.

The world's largest IKEA store located at Kungens Kurva in Stockholm, Sweden, opened in 1965.

The first Möbel-IKÉA store was opened in Älmhult, Småland in 1953, while the first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway ( 1963 ) and Denmark ( 1969 ).

Things were going so well for the company, that in 1973, the company's German executives accidentally opened a store in Konstanz when they had meant to open one in Koblenz.

The first IKEA store in Latin America opened on February 17, 2010 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

IKEA opened its largest store in Canada on 7 December 2011.

In January 2009, just before the new store opened in Southampton, the MV Red Osprey of Red Funnel was re-painted in an entirely yellow and blue livery to celebrate the opening of the new IKEA store in Southampton.

In July 1888, Baum and his wife moved to Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, where he opened a store, " Baum's Bazaar ".

In November 2008, National Geographic opened a major retail store in London.

* 1872 – Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.

Smith opened " Ozzie's " restaurant and sports bar in 1988, started a youth sports academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999, and partnered with David Slay to open a restaurant in the early 2000s.

( Handelsorganisation, meaning Trading Organisation ), had seized almost all of Wertheim ’ s former assets in the newly-created German Democratic Republic but, unable to start up the giant Leipziger Platz store again ( it was too badly damaged ), it opened a new Kaufhaus ( department store ) on the ground floor of Columbushaus.

In 1936, Nurmi also opened a men's clothing store ( haberdashery ) in Helsinki.

The original campus building at Harbour Centre, a rebuilt heritage department store, officially opened on May 5, 1989.

The first full-line year-round Saks store was opened in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929, followed by another resort store in Miami Beach, Florida.