* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army was liberated in Baguio City and they fought against the Japanese forces under by General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* 1947 – Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1947 – India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1946 – Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

* 1990 – Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

* 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth.

* 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.

This coalition was a prelude to Union of Krewo in 1385 and Union of Lublin in 1569 that resulted in the new state, Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 ), official documents were written in Polish, Ruthenian and Latin, with Lithuanian being mostly an oral language, with small quantities of written documents.

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky (, commonly transliterated as Khmelnytsky ; ; ) ( c. 1595 – 6 August 1657 ) was a hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossack Hetmanate of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth ( now part of Ukraine ).

He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates ( 1648 – 1654 ) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state.

* Chief Executive Officer or CEO / Executive Director for the nonprofit sector ( United States ), Chief Executive or Managing director ( United Kingdom, Commonwealth and some other English speaking countries ) – The CEO of a corporation is the highest ranking management officer of a corporation and has final decisions over human, financial, environmental and technical operations of the corporation.

It is also often referred as " Nobles ' Commonwealth " ( 1505 – 1795, i. e. before the union ).

Between 1653 – 1659 it was known as the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

In 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron informed the British House of Commons that his proposals to reform the rules governing royal succession, a change which would require the approval of all Commonwealth realms, were to be discussed at the 28 – 30 October CHOGM in Perth.

Those important concessions would eventually lead to the ultimately crippling rise of the unique nobles ' democracy in the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth.

* 1991 – The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States.

* 1653 – English Interregnum: The Protectorate – Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.

* 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

* 1941 – World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, the Republic of Korea, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Germany and Japan.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

* 1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations

Completed in 1998, the William T. Young Library serves both the university campus and the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Completed in 1962 only a few months before Place Ville-Marie, CIBC Tower was the tallest building in Canada and the entire Commonwealth of Nations when it was first built, until being surpassed later that year by Place Ville-Marie where a penthouse was added by the competing Royal Bank for that express purpose.

He supported the Commonwealth in campaigning to abolish apartheid in South Africa, and refused permission for the aircraft carrying the Springbok rugby team to refuel on Australian territory en route to their controversial 1981 tour of New Zealand.

* The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands ( United States ): Split into the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( 1979 ), the Federated States of Micronesia ( 1979 ), the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( 1978 ) and the Republic of Palau ( 1981 ).

Belize is a member of the Commonwealth and was granted independence from the United Kingdom in 1981.

Sauvé was the first female governor general in Canada's history, and only the second woman amongst all the Commonwealth realms both previous and contemporary to the time to assume the equivalent office, after Elmira Minita Gordon, who was in 1981 appointed Governor-General of Belize.

Calder taught all over the world, lecturing in literature at several African universities and serving from 1981 to 1987 as co-editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.

Between 1975 and 1981, Belizean leaders stated their case for self-determination at a meeting of the heads of Commonwealth of Nations governments in Jamaica, the conference of ministers of the Nonaligned Movement in Peru, and at meetings of the United Nations ( UN ).

The Supreme Court of the United States held in Commonwealth Edison Co. v. Montana, 453 U. S. 609 ( 1981 ), that in the absence of federal law to the contrary, states may set ecotaxes as high as they wish without violating the Commerce Clause or the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution.

Via a management buyout ( MBO ) in 1981, BOS was spun off to three interlinked companies, MPSL ( MicroProducts Software Ltd ) which looked after the sales and marketing of BOS, MPPL ( MicroProducts Programming Ltd ) which looked after both the development of BOS and various horizontal software packages, and MicroProducts Training Ltd. BOS was distributed on a global basis, mainly to the United States and British Commonwealth, by a variety of independent and MPSL-owned companies.

The purified rabbit IgG antivenom was developed in 1981 through a team effort led by Dr Struan Sutherland, head of immunology at the Australian Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne.

In 1981, Kim won the bantamweight gold medal at the King's Cup Boxing, defeating future Commonwealth Games gold medalist Hussein Khalili of Kenya in the final.

In 1981 the bank transferred its operations in the Solomon Islands to the National Bank of Solomon Islands, which operated as a joint venture ( 51-49, Commonwealth and Government of the Solomon Islands ).

He was appointed in September 1981 as Lord Privy Seal, in which role he was the chief government spokesman in the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

The Pitcairn Island Council approved his plans in April 1981 but the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office overrode the decision and vetoed the proposed development, after environmentalist groups had lobbied to protect the natural ecology and environment of the island which was listed as a World Heritage site in 1988.

He won a silver medal in the heavy-weight division at the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games in 1986, and gold medals at the Oceania Champs in Brisbane in 1981, and Auckland in 1986.

Gibbs was part of a 6: 1 majority in Black's case in 1981 that found that the Commonwealth could provide financial assistance to non-Government schools.

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Sir Arnold Horace Santo Waters VC, CBE, DSO, MC ( 23 September 1886, Plymouth – 22 January 1981, Sutton Coldfield ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Captain Gordon Charles Steele VC ( 1 November 1892 – 4 January 1981 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University 1981

Other International events the RCGA has been much involved in are the World Amateur Team Matches for the Eisenhower Trophy, since 1958: winning in 1986, placing second in 1962, 1964, 1978, and 2006, and hosting these “ Olympics ” of golf in 1992 ; the Commonwealth Matches, won by Canada in 1971 and 1975, discontinued in 1975 ; and the Simon Bolivar Biennial Tournament, won in 1981 by Doug Roxburgh and Gary Cowan representing Canada.

He was Private secretary to the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1974 until 1979, and was on secondment to HM Treasury from 1979 until 1984, during which time he was Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1981 until 1984.

BY me the undersigned new name in full of address excluding county and postcode in the County of county now or lately known as old name in full a British citizen under section 1 ( 1 ) ( or a Commonwealth citizen under section 37 ( 1 )) of the British Nationality Act 1981

As South Africa was a foreign country ( under United Kingdom law ) between 1 January 1973, the date the Immigration Act 1971 came into force in the UK, and 1 January 1983 ( when the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force ) South Africans cannot have right of abode in the UK unless they also hold citizenship of another Commonwealth country or of the UK itself.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth is a grassroots community organization founded in 1981.