On This Day: Jimi Hendrix, 27, died of a drug overdose in 1970

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 18: 1961 – Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman and Secretary-General of the United Nations, was killed in a plane crash in what was then Northern Rhodesia. 1964 – Sean O’Casey, Irish playwright whose works included “Juno and the Paycock” (1924), died. He was 80. 1970 – Jimi Hendrix, U.S. rock singer and...