A post-mortem concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. Hendrix had taken nine Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage. (18 September 1970)
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Wednesday 15th of January 1919 (-) — Revolutionary socialist and founder of the Spartacist Rote Fahne Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back by members of the Freikorps' Garde-Kavallerie-Schützendivision 43-year-old Otto Runge, 30-year-old Kurt Vogel and 25-year-old Hermann Souchon Official declarations said Liebknecht had been shot in an attempt to escape.