He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

He was first inducted into the Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety-seven with his band Crosby,Stills and Nash.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

In his inaugural speech, Van Buren noted that he was the first American born after the revolution to become president.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

He was honored first as a member of the Yardbirds, then with Cream, then as a solo performer in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

He said the first great fact was that laws were not necessary to keep slavery out of California and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He said he would get it, but first he wanted to know how big she thought the moon was.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Many years later, Wiley Post would say that first airplane was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10