He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

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

Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

He did not invent jeans. But he is considered the first person to manufacture and sell this kind of clothing in large amounts.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

It was nineteen thirty-three. Only six years earlier Charles Lindburgh became famous around the world as the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

He became the first person to fly from New York to Berlin without stopping.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

And,Mister Stoker was not the first person to write a story about a vampire.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

When she was only twelve years old, Mary became the first person to find the almost complete skeletons of several animals that no longer existed on Earth.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

He wanted to be the first person to fly around the world.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

He was not the first person to ask them.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

By 1989,at age 33, he'd achieved that goal, becoming the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Sessions' great-grandfather was the first person to make peanuts profitable in Enterprise.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Wooden who grew up in small towns in Indiana became a member of the U.S.Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and as a coach, the first person to earn both distinctions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

After his release, the first person Mandela asked to see during his visit to the United States was Arthur Ashe.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08