On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died of a prescription drug overdose at the hands of his personal physician, Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
2019, imma let you finish, but 2009 was the best year of all time. Obama was still president, Taylor was still country, Kanye was still friends with Jay-Z, and Ashton Kutcher was still the most followed person on Twitter. Were we ever so young? Here's what happened Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, who died the same day, were arguably the first two major celebrities to be mourned by fans on social media — preceded only by Heath Ledger, whose 2008 overdose was also discussed on a mass online scale.
The King of Pop dominated the media cycle as soon as initial reports of his collapse emerged. The week the news broke, it was
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