In his maiden speech in the House of Commons Dewar railed against proposed increase on potato tax.

The debate included the maiden speech by newly-elected NSW Liberal MP Edward St John QC, who used the opportunity to criticize the government's attitude to new evidence about the disaster.

An enraged Holt interrupted St John's speech, in defiance of the parliamentary convention that maiden speeches are heard in silence ; his blunder embarrassed the government and further undermined Holt's support in the Liberal Party.

Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.

On 16 March 1950, Powell made his maiden speech, speaking on a White Paper on Defence and beginning by saying ," There is no need for me to pretend those feelings of awe and hesitation which assail any hon.

Peel made his maiden speech at the start of the 1810 session, when he was chosen by the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, to second the reply to the king's speech.

Heath made his maiden speech in the House of Commons on 26 June 1950, in which he appealed to the Labour Government to participate in the Schuman Plan.

In July 1987, Labour MP Ken Livingstone used his maiden speech to raise the 1975 allegations of a former Army Press officer in Northern Ireland, Colin Wallace, who also alleged a plot to destabilise Wilson.

She later told him, regarding his maiden speech, that he " really must do better than that ".

In his maiden speech before the United States Senate, California Senator David C. Broderick stated, " There is no place in the Union, no place on earth, where labor is so honored and so well rewarded ..." as in California.

He took the title from his former parliamentary seat on the border of the Durham coalfields, and in his maiden speech in the House of Lords he criticised Thatcher's handling of the coal miners ' strike and her characterisation of striking miners as ' the enemy within '.

On 4 August 1876, Chamberlain made his maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on elementary schools.

He showed his interest in economic policy in his maiden speech, in which he argued against foreign investment in the domestic economy.

His maiden speech was on a housing subsidies bill.

In her maiden speech to the House of Commons, Cooper said: " The House must not misunderstand me.

His maiden speech was in favor of abolishing the civil disabilities of the Jews.

In September 1992, he made his maiden speech as party leader, about the Government's ERM debacle eight days earlier, saying that John Major was " The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government ".

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general election for Ashfield, making his maiden speech on 20 May 1992, following the retirement of the sitting Labour MP, Frank Haynes.

Rockingham's maiden speech was on 17 March 1752 in support of the Bill which disposed of Scottish lands confiscated in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

His maiden speech, which was chiefly an attack on home rule and Irish nationalism, was regarded in much the same way as his oratory at the Oxford Union: brilliant and eloquent but also presumptuous and rather too self-assured.

He made his maiden speech in February 1932 on the subject of economic policy, advocating a cautiously protectionist approach to cheap imports.

She made her maiden speech on her 22nd birthday, within an hour of taking her seat.

On election ( 31 January 1881 ), he rushed to the House of Commons, made his maiden speech next day amid stormy scenes following the arrest of Michael Davitt, then a Land League leader, and was ejected from the Commons all on the same evening.

Lefranc is remembered today, if he is at all, as a consequence of the maiden speech he gave at the Académie française in 1760, which led to him becoming forever known and defined as " the enemy of Voltaire ".

However, the 767 was still a very new aircraft, having flown its maiden flight in September 1981. was the 47th Boeing 767 off the production line, delivered to Air Canada less than 4 months previously.

He took his seat in the House of Commons as one of the members for Durham on 28 July 1843, and on 7 August delivered his maiden speech in support of a motion by Mr Ewart for reduction of import duties.

He took his place, as a matter of course, among the Conservatives, and delivered his maiden speech in May 1850 on the sugar duties.

His maiden speech, delivered in his first session, prompted compliments from Harcourt and Disraeli, who wrote to the Queen of Churchill's ' energy and natural flow '.

Starting with Flight Shed Number 1, the first Hampden built by EE made its maiden flight on 22 February 1940 and, by 1942, 770 Hampdens had been delivered – more than half of all the Hampdens produced.

He delivered his maiden speech in the Lords on 29 June.

Wilson's maiden speech to the Scottish Parliament, delivered on 6 June 2007, underlined his belief in the links between crime and deprivation and his commitment to social justice.

A noted orator, he delivered his maiden speech to the House of Representatives without notes.

They also delivered experiments and supplies aboard the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello on its maiden flight.

On 21 June 2011 McGauran delivered his valedictory speech to the Senate, 24 years after giving his maiden speech in the old Parliament House.

She delivered her maiden speech on 24 November 2005.

He finally scored his maiden first-class century ( 110 ) against Victoria in the final game of the season, completing his hundred while bleeding profusely after being struck on the jaw by a ball delivered by Ernie McCormick.

At a ceremony on Mount Makiling attended by First Lady Imelda Marcos, Joaquín delivered an invocation to Mariang Makiling, the mountain's mythical maiden.

On that occasion Castelar delivered his maiden speech, which at once placed him in the van of the advanced politicians of the reign of Queen Isabella.

Alexander delivered his maiden speech to Parliament on 28 October 2010, detailing his particular interest in areas of preventative health, infrastructure, transport and sustainable growth.

With manufacturer's serial number 22580 / 787 and powered with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17A engines, the airframe had its maiden flight on ( it was old at the time the accident took place ) and was originally delivered to South African Airways.

* 1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

A Doll's House was based on the life of Laura Kieler ( maiden name Laura Smith Petersen ).

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

The dog was not, however, on the maiden voyage.

Cessna's first business jet, the Cessna Citation I performed its maiden flight on September 15, 1969.

Sri Lanka went on to win their maiden championship by defeating Australia by seven wickets in the final, which was held in Lahore.

The famed sailing ship Le Griffon reached the mouth of the Detroit River in mid-August 1679 on its maiden voyage through the Great Lakes.

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

* The first three-person EVA was performed on May 13, 1992, as the third EVA of STS-49, the maiden flight of Endeavour.

* 1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden " flight " on top of a Boeing 747.

Shelby's first victory came on their maiden race with the Ford program, with Ken Miles and Lloyd Ruby taking a Shelby American-entered GT40 to victory in the Daytona 2000 in February 1965.

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

* 1959 –, said to be the safest ship afloat and " unsinkable " like the, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank, killing all 95 aboard.

* 1952 – The sets sail on her maiden voyage to Southampton.

* 1952 – The ocean liner passes Bishop's Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.

While in high school, he took on his paternal grandmother's maiden name, " Spacey ", originally a Yorkshire name, as his acting surname.

* 1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.

* 1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45, 647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

The bow of Vasa ( ship ) | Vasa, a Swedish warship that foundered and sank on its maiden voyage in 1628.

* 1863 – The, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $ 1, 000, 000.

Muralitharan's third over was a maiden with all deliveries again passed as legitimate but in his fourth Hair no-balled him twice for throwing on the fourth and sixth balls.

* 1907 – Cunard Line's, sister ship of, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

The Parthenon () is a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the maiden goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.