It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

He says he invited his daughter and fifty of her friends to the studio on the first day of recording.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

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

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The first major battle on Northern territory has just been fought that day a hundred kilometers from Washington.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

National Woman's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Sadly,its leader Alex Chilton died of a heart attack on the first day of the music festival.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

On the first day of November, John kissed his mother goodbye and left home with Seth.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

And then we drop in on parties." Some families like to take it easy on January first and enjoy a quiet day of rest.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He spoke on the first day of classes at a high school in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

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

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

Today, most people celebrate New Year's Day on January first.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08