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

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Some polling stations stayed open late Friday on the first day of the balloting because voters were still in line at closing time.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

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

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

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

VOA: special.2010.04.21

He was sick only two days. They found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

The first day Helen was away from her family she kicked and screamed most of the time.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

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

VOA: special.2010.06.26

But Lincoln said he would not sign the proclamation until the first day of eighteen-sixty-three.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

The Germans,by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armored vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

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

"Other than that it was driving rain the first day." Crews visually scan for ribbons and sheets of oil.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05