The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

It would be the first of seven trips that she would make to the area in the next forty-seven years.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

This week we begin the first of two programs about classical music composers at work today in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The committee report was the first of three planned to deal with the release of the C.R.U.'s private e-mails on the Internet.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

It was the first of more than twelve top hits for Little Richard over the next three years.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Project official Carlos Zundt says the bus is the first of its kind in Latin America.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

But this next Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is scheduled to perform on October twenty-ninth during the first of two nights of concerts.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Today we present the first of two programs about some of the most famous people who lived in the American West many years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Like women!" This is the first of four stages of the New York Avenue Sculpture Project.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Two years later she won the Western Open for the first of her three major titles.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The city's urban transportation system recently launched the first of up to five hydrogen buses.

VOA: special.2009.09.07