With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

* 1790 – The first US Census is conducted.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

On May 25, 1961, twenty days after the first US manned spaceflight Freedom 7, Kennedy proposed the Apollo program to Congress in a special address to a joint session:

* 1915 – US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U. S. submarine sunk in accident.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

* 1861 – American Civil War: in order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 ( 3 % of all incomes over US $ 800 ; rescinded in 1872 ).

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

* Apollo Telescope Mount, solar observatory attached to Skylab, the first US space station

As relations between the US and USSR warmed in the later years of the 1960s, the US first proposed an ABM treaty in 1967.

" The construction of a missile defense system was also feared to enable the US to attack with a nuclear first strike.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

He managed to beat Eversharp to market in late 1945 ; the first ballpoint pens went on sale at Gimbels department store in New York City on 29 October 1945 for US $ 9. 75 each.

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).

The first two, in 1848 and 1849, failed before departure due to US opposition.

In July 2012, Cuba received its first American goods shipment in over 50 years, following the partial relaxation of the US embargo to permit humanitarian shipments.

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

It is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute to carry a US $ 1, 000, 000 prize for the first correct solution.

Cessna's parent company Textron posted a loss of US $ 8M in the first quarter of 2010, largely driven by continuing low sales at Cessna, which were down 44 %.

A year later, in December 1989, MIPS held its first IPO.

An initial public offering ( IPO ) or stock market launch is a type of public offering where shares of stock in a company are sold to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time.

The VOC was the first modern company to issue public shares, and it is this issuance, at the beginning of the 16th century, that is considered the first modern IPO.

In the United States, the first IPO was the public offering of Bank of North America.

The effect of " initial underpricing " an IPO is to generate additional interest in the stock when it first becomes publicly traded.

Palm Inc had its IPO during the dot com bubble and in its first day of trading the shares of the new company hit an all time high of US $ 95. 06.

In its first day as a public company, the stock rose exactly 100 %, resulting in the best U. S .- based IPO in six years, and the second-best IPO for a restaurant after Boston Market.

On the first day of the IPO, Accenture raised nearly $ 1. 7 billion.

The IPO share price started at HK $ 2. 95 per share and jumped 15 % ( to HK $ 3. 40 ) after the first day of trading.

In June 1995, SITEL became the first publicly traded, independent teleservices company and was listed on the NASDAQ through an initial public offering ( IPO ).

Fireking regularly plays the Boston and Detroit IPO ( International Pop Overthrow ) festival as well as once playing the IPO event held in Liverpool, England at The Cavern Pub and The Cavern Club, where ' The Beatles first played.

Businessweek, commenting on the proposed IPO, noted that Orbitz lost $ 5. 3 million in the first half of 2003 on revenue of $ 107 million ; that airlines would control the board of directors of Orbitz even after the IPO ; and that much of Orbitz's business model was structured to benefit the airlines at the cost of ( future ) shareholders.

The first day of the IPO closed with the company's common stock at $ 21. 88 per share, up from the initial price of $ 18 per share.

Stephen A. Schwarzman | Schwarzman's Blackstone Group completed the first major IPO of a private equity firm in June 2007.

In 1958, the IPO was awarded the Israel Prize, in music, being the first year in which the Prize was awarded to an organization.

The IPO did not have a formal music director, but instead " music advisors ", until 1977, when Mehta was appointed the IPO's first Music Director.

Sara Lee divested itself of Coach first by selling 19. 5 % of their shares of Coach at the Coach IPO in October 2000, followed in April 2001 with the distribution of their remaining shares to Sara Lee ’ s stockholders through an exchange offer.

CarMax grew slowly for its first four years as the team refined the basic concept, then went public through an IPO as a " tracking stock " ( KMX ) of Circuit City in February 1997.

* 1994: The first profit since the company's IPO in 1986 is registered

Yet it raised $ 112. 5 million at IPO, and its stock rose 60 % on the first day, valuing the whole company ( including those shares still privately held ) at over $ 750 million ).