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On this day - 2 March

Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins Templeton prize

Church Times 02/03/1983

On March 2nd 1983 it was announced that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the recipient of the Templeton prize for progress in religion. The Templeton prize was worth around £110,000 and was voted on by a panel.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer and the recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature. He spent many years in internal exile and prison within the Soviet Union for criticism of Stalin. His works detailed the Gulag prison system and the political repression that was rife in the Stalin-led Soviet Union.

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Graverobbers steal Charlie Chaplin's body

Daily Mirror 02/03/1978
During the early hours of March 2nd 1978 two graverobbers dug up and stole the body of Charlie Chaplin. He had died the Christmas prior and was buried in near his home in Switzerland. Roman Wardas and Gantcho Ganev attempted to use the body to extort ransom money from Chaplin's widow. They were unsuccessful and were caught following a large scale police investigation.

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