The American musician Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970,
aged 27. In the days leading up to his death, he was in poor health,
affected by exhaustion and possibly influenza, and frustrated by his
personal relationships. He spent his last day with Monika Dannemann at
her apartment in Notting Hill. The next morning, she found him
unresponsive, and he was confirmed dead at St Mary Abbot's Hospital. The
post-mortem examination concluded that Hendrix had died of asphyxia
after choking on his vomit while intoxicated with barbiturates;
Dannemann stated that he had taken 18 times his recommended dose of
Vesparax. Finding no evidence of suicide, the coroner recorded his death
as an open verdict. In 1992, Hendrix's former girlfriend Kathy
Etchingham asked the UK authorities to reinvestigate his death; this
second investigation again proved inconclusive when it was closed the
following year. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes Hendrix as
"arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jimi_Hendrix>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
324:
Constantine the Great decisively defeated Licinius in the Battle
of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman
Empire, and ending the Tetrarchy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chrysopolis>
1809:
The second theatre of the Royal Opera House (interior pictured)
in London opened after a fire destroyed the original theatre one year
earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Opera_House>
1895:
Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment to
deaf janitor Harvey Lillard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_chiropractic>
1918:
World War I: The Central Powers' defeat in the Battle of Dobro
Pole played a role in the Bulgarian withdrawal from the war and opened
the way for the subsequent liberation of Vardar Macedonia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dobro_Pole>
1998:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain
names and IP addresses in the Internet, was established.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
disinformation:
The dissemination of intentionally false information to deliberately
confuse or mislead.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disinformation>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional
lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.
--Samuel Johnson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson>