SpongeBob won the hearts of children all over America during the first year of the cartoon series on the Nicklelodeon cable television network.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

This was the second year of the Green Summer Job Corps in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

The title came in the first year of the Yankees' new Japan's Hideki Matsui was voted the Series' Most Valuable Player after he hit 615 with three home runs and eight runs batted in (RBI), including a World Series record-tying 6-RBI performance in Game 6.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

He said the darkening of the Martian surface during some times of the year was caused by the growth of plants.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

The seeds and pollen have left a forty-thousand-year record of the environment and weather for this area of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

Harper took his band on the road last year as part of the effort to get young people to vote.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

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

Each December, the editors and news directors of the Associated Press vote for the top ten news stories of the year.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

It was named Song of the Year at the Austin Music Awards, the closing event of the South by Southwest Music conference.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

For example, hundreds of thousands of people a year visit the ancient buildings of Machu Picchu in Peru.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Flashdance became the third highest box office hit of the year, earning more than ninety million dollars in the United States alone.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

And finally, the tenth news story of the year has been called the "Miracle on the Hudson."

VOA: special.2010.01.02