Pan American Games Aires in 1940, the participants decided that the first games should be held in Buenos Aires in 1942. The plans had to be postponed because of World War II. A second Pan American Sports Congress held in London during the 1948 Summer Olympics reconfirmed Buenos Aires as the choice of host city for the inaugural games, which were held in 1951. The games offered 18 sports. Countries that were part of the Commonwealth of Nations such as Canada did not compete at the first Pan American Games. The second games were held in Mexico City, Mexico. Competitions started on March
Wilde, Buenos Aires the terminal in December of that year. Those were the first . Another 500 () were added in the next twenty years. In late 1903, crew members of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition were hosted at the summer residence of Dr. W. G. Davis. Their ship, the "Scotia", had run aground on the Rio de la Plata estuary, and was stuck for several days before it floated free and was assisted into the port of Buenos Aires by a tugboat on December 24, 1903. Wilde, Buenos Aires Wilde is a city in the Avellaneda Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Wilde