The first Academy Awards were presented in nineteen twenty-nine during a private dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Michael Johnston is twenty-seven. He was first deployed to Iraq in two thousand three at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

On May twenty-ninth, nineteen fifty-three, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to reach the summit of Everest.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

On June twenty-sixth, the first C-47s landed at Tempelhof Airport - the beginning of the great operation that was to come.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

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 Southern Company plans to build the nuclear power centers with the first starting operations in twenty sixteen.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

The international malaria community has set the end of twenty-ten as its target for meeting the first in a series of goals.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Its president,Anne Neal, says these areas of knowledge are needed to succeed in a twenty-first century society and an increasingly connected world.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

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

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway,Alaska, on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

On September twenty-first, a team called BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos was named the winner of the Netflix Prize.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

That was when twenty-five students in a class taught by Thomas Zurbuchen first talked about the idea.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two, and weighed less.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Girls are advised to begin testing within three years of when they first have sex, or in any case no later than twenty-one.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

The Navy says about twenty women will be chosen as the first group to serve on submarines.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

The first Rockwell work Spielberg ever bought is a nineteen twenty-two painting called "And Daniel Boone Comes to Life on the Underwood Portable."

VOA: special.2010.09.20

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