After his death Satie's friends discovered an apartment replete with squalor and chaos. Among many other unsorted papers and miscellaneous items, it contained a large number of umbrellas and two grand pianos placed one on top of the other, the upper instrument used as storage for letters and parcels. (1 July 1925)
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Wednesday 3rd of April 1968 (x) — Activist and African-American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King delivers his last speech 'I've Been tot the Mountaintop'. At the end of the speech King discusses the possibility of an untimely death. On the following day King was assassinated.