So, for the first time in state history, the Illinois House of Representatives in Springfield voted Friday to impeach the governor.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

For the first time, Americans will be required to have health insurance or face a yearly fine starting in four years.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Professor Aicher explains that many composers have exciting premieres, where their music is played in public for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

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

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

The vehicle is helping scientists to see for the first time huge areas underneath the lake that were otherwise impossible to explore.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

For the first time the W.H.O.raised its alert level from phase four to phase five on April twenty-ninth.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

For the first time, General Motors has announced higher sales in China, the world's largest car market, than in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04