In two thousand five Santa Fe was named a UNESCO Creative City -- the first American city to get that honor.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Three astronauts were named for the first manned Apollo test flight: Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Almost four thousand fellows have been chosen since the first were named in June of two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

On September twenty-first, a team called BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos was named the winner of the Netflix Prize.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The only passenger on that first stage to travel all the way through to San Francisco was a newspaper reporter named Waterman Ormsby.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in 1609.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

The historians named America's first president, George Washington, as second on the list of greatest presidents.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

In nineteen seventy-eight, the islands were the first place named to the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

A California doctor named Lawrence Craven first noted this effect about sixty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

A British doctor named John Langdon Down first described it in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In nineteen ninety-six, a sheep named Dolly became the first animal to be cloned.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

He also made the first recording of a guitar-playing farm worker named McKinley Morganfield.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

They named their first child Benjamin.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

The first stop for his 12-meter boat, named "Finest Kind" is a channel right off the waterfront.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Not present at the event was the latest addition to the first family, a puppy named Bo.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

The numbers prove that. In October,Forbes magazine named Woods the first athlete to earn $1 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16