President Obama gave his first State of the Union speech Wednesday night.

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Yosemite became the first state park.

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In 1965, California became the first state to name an official rock, a greenish or bluish mineral called serpentine.

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President Obama's first State of the Union address came at a time when his Democratic Party is still reeling from a stinging defeat last week for a U.S.Senate seat in the heavily Democratic state, Massachusetts.

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

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Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

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This student from the state of Texas was the first place winner of last week's National Geographic Bee.

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One such program in the state of New Jersey is giving some young people their first experience with the world of work.

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The first park to charge a visitor fee was Mount Rainier in the northwestern state of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight.

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He took part in some of the first movements of huge cattle herds from Texas to the railroads in the state of Kansas.

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Later she helped gain passage of the first law against domestic violence in the state of Pennsylvania.

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Yellowstone, in the western state of Wyoming, was not only the first national park in America.

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At first,the study involved about five thousand people in the American state of Massachusetts.

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Hawaiians accepted it, and on August twenty-first, President Eisenhower declared Hawaii the fiftieth state.

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Later cases ruled that teaching religious creation stories in public schools violates the First Amendment of the Constitution that calls for separation of church and state.

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He is the first head of state to be charged by the I.C.C.

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And she was the first African-American poet laureate for the state of Maryland.

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The first radio station opened in the state of Pennsylvania in nineteen-twenty.

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First,Grant planned to cross the river into northern Mississippi state.

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