Age codes include HY (hatching year), indicating a bird in the calendar year of its hatching; SY (second year), indicating a bird in its second calendar year (HY/SY indicates a bird in its first plumage cycle, being HY until 31 Dec and SY after 1 Jan); TY (third year), indicating a bird in its third calendar year; AHY (after-hatching year), ...
Leif erickson and the vikings were in fact the first to discover and settle on what is now called the united states of america. Christopher Columbus is given credit for discovering the New World, but was he really the first person to step foot in this new land.
Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk. Elizabeth Ann Seton establishes the first American community of the Sisters of Charity, in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In 1975 she became the first native-born American to be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.