news/notes 2009.03.10

[Born This Day] from [Britannica]
Kim Campbell
Progressive Conservative Kim Campbell, who became Canada's first woman prime minister and its first leader from the West Coast when she succeeded Brian Mulroney in 1993, was born this day in 1947 in British Columbia.

[On This Day] from [Britannica]
1933: Opening of the Nazis' first concentration camp
On this day in 1933, soon after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, the first concentration camp in Germany opened at Dachau, where at least 32,000 people would die from disease, malnutrition, physical oppression, and execution.