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Events on Tuesday 18 August 1587 1
1587Birth of Virginia Dare at RoanokeFirst English child born in the AmericasVirginia Dare was born at the Roanoke Colony in present-day North Carolina, the first child born to English parents in the Americas. She was the granddaughter of colony governor John White, who departed for England soon after her birth and found the colony abandoned upon his return years later.