Wisconsin and North Carolina both approved smoking bans on the same day this month.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It was a big turnout, as Eastern Orthodox and Western Churches celebrated Easter on the same day for the first time in years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

These Washington couples cannot get married on the same day they will apply for a license.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

This was an Olympics , that began on a sad note after the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, a young luge athlete from Georgia, during a practice run on the same day as the opening ceremonies.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

On that same day, Abraham Lincoln left his home in Illinois to become president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

As it happens, the plan was announced on May sixth -- the same day as the "flash crash" on American stock markets.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

He sneaked into Nigeria on the 24th of December 2009 and left the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The new schedule calls for Endeavour to lift off before dawn on Wednesday, the same day that NASA had hoped to launch a separate mission to survey the moon.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

The suspected terrorist was thought to have been involved in a 2002 bombing of an Israeli tourist hotel on the coast of Kenya and a botched attempt at shooting down an Israeli charter jet the same day.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16