This Day in Commonwealth History: 27 January 1919: The Spanish Flu epidemic reaches New South Wales; across Australia, over 12,000 would die of the disease 1926: Scots inventor John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television 1942: Canada loans the British government one billion dollars for the war effort; final payments are made in 2007 1966: Princess Margaret returns Portland Island to the British Columbia government, who had given it to her in 1958 to celebrate her visit to the province 1980: Six American diplomats are secretly evacuated from the Iranian Revolution through the Canadian Embassy using falsified papers
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:30:00 +0000
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