* Opening a file to use its contents

Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.

Painting depicting the Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway | opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, the first inter-city railway in the world and which spawned Railway Mania due to its success.

Opening to rave reviews, From Here to Eternity proved to be an instant hit with critics and the public alike, the Southern California Motion Picture Council extolling: " A motion picture so great in its starkly realistic and appealing drama that mere words cannot justly describe it.

He delivered what has come to be regarded as a landmark speech in Australian political history during the Opening, citing the theme that the completion of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was analogous to the history, development and dreams of the Australian nation and its people.

Opening its doors for the first time in over 20 years as a country gift and antique store, it paved the way for a business revival that still continues.

They were the first to have the Opening of the Games as a separate event: an event at which for the first time the athletes marched into the stadium in national teams, each following its national flag.

Opening on 1, 736 North American screens, it was number one at the box office in its opening weekend, grossing US $ 9, 858, 380 ($ 5, 678 per screen ).

Opening in 1970, the store, which was named Divine Trash, sold items that Divine had purchased in thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales, although had to move from its original location after he had failed to obtain a license from the local authorities.

Opening its doors at the corner of Eaton Street and River Avenue in 1919 and with only one building, Harkins Hall, the college under inaugural president Dennis Albert Casey, O. P.

The acquisition of No. 14 enabled the Museum, under its new Director, Tim Knox, to embark on ' Opening up the Soane ', an ambitious project to complete the restoration of the Museum's historic spaces, funded by the Monument Trust, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Soane Foundation in New York and other private trusts.

Architektin, featuring Helen Morse, Ksenja Logos, Craig Behenna, Duncan Graham, Antje Guenther, Michael Habib and Nick Pelomis, produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and directed by Adam Cook, had its Opening Night on 2 September 2008 at the Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide, South Australia.

Opening in 1858, its creation was one of the first acts of the newly formed Minnesota Legislature.

Opening a meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs, she said that the perpetrators of the coup were " false prophets " motivated by greed, who were inciting racial strife and uncertainty with their threats, and that the coups had brought Fiji to its knees.

In his " Opening Address to a Conference at Mont Pelerin " Hayek mentioned " two men with whom I had most fully discussed the plan for this meeting both have not lived to see its realisation ": Henry Simons ( who trained Milton Friedman, a future president of the society, at the University of Chicago ) and Sir John Clapham, a senior official of the Bank of England who from 1940 – 6 was the president of the British Royal Society.

Opening of the Gulf of California around 6 million years ago enabled a large river to cut its way northeast from the gulf.

In 2008, NBC won the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Beijing Opening Ceremony along with Chinese film director Zhang Yimou, who served as the event ’ s creative director.

Opening first in London in 1993, the musical has had several long runs internationally and also enjoyed extensive tours, although the show, which has been the subject of several legal battles, lost money because of its extraordinary running costs.

The first year of the new decade saw a renewed commitment from the Federal government in its efforts to prevent and end homelessness with the creation and release of Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.

Opening Doors is a publication of the U. S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which worked with all Federal agencies and many state and local stakeholders on its creation and vision, setting a ten year path for the nation on preventing and ending all types of homelessness.

Opening in 1, 053 theaters on July 2, 1986, Big Trouble in Little China grossed $ 2. 7 million in its opening weekend and went on to gross $ 11. 1 million in North America, well below its estimated budget of $ 25 million.

Opening doors, windows and using ceiling fans are all ways to maximize natural ventilation and reduce the risk of airborne contagion.

Opening onto the parvis ( the large square in front of the cathedral where markets were held ), the two lateral doors would have been the first entry point for most visitors to Chartres, as it remains today.

Opening its doors in 1998, Krop began with 9th and 10th grades and eventually added 11th and 12th grades ; its first graduating class was the class of 2001.

Opening upwards, the doors evoke the image of a seagull's wings.

Opening its doors in 1964, Hodaka is credited by some with starting the trail bike craze in the United States.

Opening doors to international experiences for students has been a vital part of Crown College tradition.

She and Cassavetes made ten films together: A Child is Waiting ( 1963 ), Faces ( 1968 ), Machine Gun McCain ( 1969 ), Minnie and Moskowitz ( 1971 ), A Woman Under the Influence ( 1974 ; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress ), Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 ), Opening Night ( 1977 ), Gloria ( 1980 ; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress ), Tempest ( 1982 ), and Love Streams ( 1984 ).

The Opening Ceremony at the 2nd Olympic Winter Games for the Disabled in Geilo in 1980

* 1980 Too Close For Comfort ( TV Opening )

1980 Opening of St. Joseph ’ s Guidance and Counselling Centre was a major step forward in catering to the psychological needs of the student community, paving the way for a holistic development of one ’ s personality.

* It was used during the final leg of the Olympic torch relay during the Opening Ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union.

The nation did not fully participate in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in protest over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, but the Dutch athletes did boycott the Opening Ceremony, and the Olympic Flag was used in place of Netherlands ' national flag at medal ceremonies.

Opening in 1980 as the Shenandoah Hotel, the property was plagued with licensing and financial difficulties from the start.

Along with its hosting duties for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Opening Round game (" play-in " game ), the UD Arena also served as the host of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference ( now Horizon League ) men's basketball conference tournament from 1989 – 91 and was the host of the Atlantic Ten Basketball tournament in 2003 and 2004.

* Opening Day – first Sunday in April

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

* 1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.

* 1848 – Opening of the first German National Assembly ( Nationalversammlung ) in Frankfurt, Germany.

* 1817 – Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason ( now Friends Hospital ) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

* 1871 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.

The Vikings won their first regular season game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37 – 13 on Opening Day.

* 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

* 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.

Because of his injury, Smith let his now four-year-old son Nikko perform his traditional Opening Day backflip before the Cardinals ' first home game of the 1986 season.

President Woodrow Wilson throwing out the ceremonial first ball on Opening Day, 1916

William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.

Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

Richard Nixon throwing Opening Day ceremonial first pitch at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium | RFK Stadium on April 7, 1969 with Ted Williams ( left ) and Bob Short ( right, partially obscured by Ralph Houk ).

* December 18 – Opening of first exhibition by Der Blaue Reiter group of painters, in Munich.

* May 21 – Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Vitznau – Rigi Railway on Mount Rigi in Switzerland.

Opening of first railway in India from Bombay to Thana, Maharashtra: 22 miles, 36 km.

This policy has continued with the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, where Canadian Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to carry her country's flag in the Opening Ceremonies of an integrated games.

* August 31 – Opening of Old Dock, Liverpool, England, the world's first enclosed commercial wet dock ( Thomas Steers, engineer ).