The hard work of this grassroots effort resulted in the first Earth Day on April twenty-second, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Apple says it sold one million iPads in April, the first month it offered the product.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

On April twenty-second, nineteen seventy, environmental activists organized the first ever Earth Day.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

On April seventh, nineteen fifty-nine, the space agency introduced the first American astronauts.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The first Nancy Drew books were published in April of nineteen thirty.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

BP stopped the oil from billowing into the Gulf on Thursday, for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But a joint statement issued April 1 after the first meeting in London between presidents Obama and Medvedev said: "The relationship between offensive and defensive arms will be discussed by the two governments."

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

The two presidents met for the first time on the sidelines of the G-20 economic conference in London in early April and set in motion what Clinton says is an effort to raise the frequently contentious U.S.-Russian relationship to a higher level.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

The decision to pursue talks , the treaty," replacing the START-1 treaty was reached during a London meeting earlier this month (April 3) between President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitri Medvedev - the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08