But historians tell us that many other inaugurations had their own distinctions.
"Very few people are interested in perestroika," a historian told me.
But where is there evidence of the kind of machines your historians tell us they had in those days?
"The battle did not last long," the historian told Izvestia.
To hear the historians tell the story, there's a lot to celebrate.
Spanish historians tell us that he was born of a "distinguished Irish family".
An historian told me that his colleagues are about evenly divided in their support of these theories.
Neither cameras nor historians can tell us what occurred in their famous encounter.
Not until 1940, historians tell us, did maternal mortality improve over the high level of the 17th century.
Perhaps historians will tell us that it was an error not to provide for alternative options.