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Title: Anniversaries: Post by: Calliope on March 02, 2009, 11:39:40 am Anniversaries: Mar 2 Events In 2000 Britain allowed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to fly home, saving him from extradition to Spain where he would have faced charges of human rights abuses. Births Sir Thomas Bodley, scholar and diplomat who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford, 1545; Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), writer, 1904; Karen Carpenter, singer who with her brother Richard sold more than 80 million records, 1950. Deaths Salomon Gessner, pastoral poet and engraver, 1788; Heinrich Olbers, physician and astronomer, 1840; D. H. Lawrence, novelist, 1930; Philip K. Dick, science-fiction author, 1982. |