Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for March 2nd: https://ko-fi.com/post/March-2-P5P41BFMMW
Today's Observance: Purim (begins at sundown)
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: The Sound of Music
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Artist Birthday: Lou Reed
Bummer March 2nd
March 2, 1978: Two thieves steal the coffin containing the body of actor Charlie Chaplin, which was interred in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. They hope to gain $600,000 in ransom, but Chaplin’s widow Oona (the daughter of American playwright Eugene O’Neill) refused to pay. The two men, auto mechanisms from Poland and Bulgaria, were instead forced to show police the corn field in which they’d reburied the coffin. Chaplin’s family took the precaution of burying the coffin in concrete when it was returned to the cemetery. The English actor had died at age 88 on December 25, 1977.
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March 2, 1982: Science fiction author Philip K. Dick is taken off life support. He has suffered two strokes, with brain death following the second stroke.
March 2, 1999: Singer Dusty Springfield dies of recurrent breast cancer. She’s 59 years old.
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