On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Russia's importance to ballet continued in the twentieth century thanks to the forward thinking Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes dancers.

VOA: special.2011.01.26

But he said it was too early to say what caused the April twentieth explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

At two hours fifty-six Greenwich Mean Time on July twentieth,nineteen sixty-nine, Neil Armstrong put his foot on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Salvador Dali is widely recognized as one of the most famous and also disputed artists of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

With her pictures in Life magazine, she told a story about America's "Wild West" in the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

For the United States, one of the most successful public diplomacy efforts of the late twentieth century was the Jazz Ambassadors programs.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Most American girls at the beginning of the twentieth century were taught to sit quietly and speak softly.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

"Since the turn of the twentieth century, there have been many hundreds of published concepts for flying-driving vehicles.

VOA: special.2011.07.11

One cover shows the Twentieth Colored Infantry of Eighteen Sixty-Four receiving a silk banner in New York City.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

"Atlas Shrugged" has been named in several opinion studies as one of the best and most influential books of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

Experts say her revolutionary way of capturing people on film has produced some of the most important images in twentieth century photography.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Her life was full of adventure. She was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.05.17