3 March 1920: Birth of James Doohan, Canadian Actor

James Doohan

James Montgomery Doohan was born in Vancouver, in the Canadian Province of British Columbia, on 3 March 1920. His parents, William and Sarah, had emigrated from Ireland and had three older children. The family later moved to Ontario where Doohan was educated at the Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School.

During

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2 March 1970: Ian Smith Declared Rhodesia a Republic

Rhodesia

On 2 March 1970 Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, announced the formation of the Republic of Rhodesia at a ceremony at Government House, Salisbury. With the signing of the proclamation, Smith dissolved Rhodesia’s parliament and brought into effect a new constitution.

Rhodesia, named after Cecil Rhodes, had been a British

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1 March 1810: Birth of Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French Composer

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (or Fryderyk Franciszek Szopen in Polish) was born on 1 March 1810 in the Duchy of Warsaw to a French father and a Polish mother. His father, Nicholas, took work as a tutor to aristocratic families and later became a French teacher at the Warsaw lyceum.

Chopin loved

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