Almanac for January 23rd

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for January 23rd: https://ko-fi.com/post/January-23-Django-G2G519772Y

Bummer January 23rd

January 23, 1943: Algonquin Round Table wit Alexander Woollcott, who regularly performed on the radio, appeared in a panel discussion about Adolph Hitler on CBS Radio. Listeners notice he is uncharacteristically quiet during the discussion. In fact, Woollcott is having a heart attack. He writes “I am sick” on a pad to paper to let the other participants know he needs medical attention. He dies in the hospital a few hours later.

January 23, 1978: 31-year-old Terry Kath, a founding member of the musical group Chicago, places a gun he believes is unloaded to his head and pulls the trigger. The gun has a round in the chamber, killing Kath instantly.

January 23, 1989: Spanish artist Salvador Dalí dies of cardiac arrest. He is 84 and suffering from heart failure.

January 23, 2008: A Pennsylvania woman dies in the hospital after suffering electrical shock in her home; she and her husband had been using homemade nipple clamps, allegedly as a sexual stimulant. Her husband, who had a prior conviction for domestic violence, was charged with involuntarily manslaughter for his role. He was convicted in May 2009 and sentenced to 20-40 years in prison. Jurors seemed to be skeptical of the man’s claim that the electrical shock was part of the couple’s sexual activity and tended toward the theory that it was, instead, torture.