Nelson Jackson and his friend, Sewall Crocker, were honored as the first to cross the United States in an automobile.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The writing on the stone says in large letters: Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Doctor Selanikio says he first recognized a need when he worked for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He sent the United States Navy on its first foreign expedition to punish the states of Morocco, Tripoli,Tunis and Algiers.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He will be inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, and the first black president, on January 20th.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

President Obama returned to the United States this week after his first visit to Europe since taking office in January.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

But other groups, like the America First Committee, demanded that the United States stay out of another bloody European conflict.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The Public Works of Art Program was the first national effort by the United States government to support artists.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

But he was also right that it would be the first step toward ending slavery in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

In April,after the first cases in the United States, officials told schools to close at the first sign of an H1N1 outbreak.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

He united the nation. And he took the first steps that destroyed the institution of slavery in America.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The ruling was unpopular. It came as Americans resisted big corporations like the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

The verb "to lobby" first appeared in print in the United States in the eighteen thirties, according to a website about Washington.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

In nineteen sixty, Nautilus was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to become the first nuclear-powered submarine in the United States Sixth Fleet.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

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

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Charlie White and Meryl Davis are competing for the United States at the Olympics for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.02.10