Nelson Jackson and his friend, Sewall Crocker, were honored as the first to cross the United States in an automobile.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Mattel agreed to change it. That was back in nineteen ninety-two, the same year as the first Barbie for President doll.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

A model fort is the only structure in the park built in the exact place as the first building.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Carlo Urbani was the first doctor to warn the world of the disease that became known as SARS.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The Navy says about twenty women will be chosen as the first group to serve on submarines.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

The civil war in Greece ended. American help for Greece and Turkey was the first step in what became known as the "Truman Doctrine."

VOA: special.2011.08.04

The study is described as the first to demonstrate the indirect spread of happiness.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

The group operates animal shelters. And it has been developing a specialized camel rescue center, which it describes as the first of its kind in India.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

It was nineteen thirty-three. Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

DAM is known as the first Palestinian group to sing hip-hop.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Kami is known as the first HIV positive puppet.

VOA: special.2009.11.27