How rare to find, for example, a biography of a woman who wasn't a queen or courtesan, let alone an account of a great activist and woman of letters such as Rachel Holmes's Eleanor Marx: A Life. Holmes's account of the first ever May Day demonstration, and Eleanor Marx's speech, is a read to lift the mind and heart of any despairing person in difficult times.
Experts say it's the first-ever month-to-month benefit decrease for the SNAP program.
In July, police clashed with more than 100 anti-gay protesters, mostly young football hooligans, who hurled rocks and bottles to disrupt the first-ever march by several dozen gay activists in the coastal town of Budva.
China's hesui pian – its New Year films – have become hotly contested fixtures, as shown by the news that February was the first ever full month in which the country's box office exceeded the US's: $650m to $640m.
In addition, the most recent ground-level ozone advisory for the New York metropolitan area, where ozone levels were expected to exceed health standards, occurred on April 16, the first ever before May, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The streets of New York were thronging with people in the first ever Climate March on September 21.
The people passing his lonely picket were the hundreds who had turned out for the first ever Pride march in the Western Isles, the island archipelago at the far north west of Scotland that remains a bastion of ultra-conservative Presbyterianism.
As part of this initiative, Vera organized the first ever National Prison Visiting Week this past month by partnering with state corrections agencies and local jurisdictions, as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, to open up prisons and jails in 17 geographically and politically diverse states.
The first ever Gay Pride march planned in Kiev was called off at the last minute in May after threats of violence from far-right groups.
