This Day in Commonwealth History: August 18 1587: Virginia Dare, - TopicsExpress



          

This Day in Commonwealth History: August 18 1587: Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North America, is born at the Roanoke Colony in what is now Virginia 1786: The British government decides to use New South Wales as a convict colony 1919: Joseph Seagram, Canadian founder of the Seagram distilling company, dies (b. 1841) 1971: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their soldiers from Vietnam 1994: The fourteenth Commonwealth Games open in Victoria, BC. They would be the first appearance of South Africa since 1958 and the last appearance of Hong Kong
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:14:56 +0000

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