It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Sadly,its leader Alex Chilton died of a heart attack on the first day of the music festival.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

On the first day of November, John kissed his mother goodbye and left home with Seth.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

He spoke on the first day of classes at a high school in Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

In keeping with U.N.tradition, the U.S.president will address the General Assembly on the first day of its annual debate, on September 23.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

Some polling stations stayed open late Friday on the first day of the balloting because voters were still in line at closing time.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

And so now I have a great time!" On the first day of South By Southwest 2010, word came of the death of singer-songwriter Alex Chilton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

It was the first time a presidential election was held on the same day in all parts of the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

The hard work of this grassroots effort resulted in the first Earth Day on April twenty-second, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Most of the world observes Labor Day on May first.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

The British only stayed for a week, then marched out of town on July 4th, five years to the day after the American colonies had first declared their independence.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03