Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 10 August 1896

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Lüdke was sterilised under a 1933 German law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, 'Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses'.
(29 May 1940)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Monday 10th of August 1896 130 years, 5 months and 1 days ago
Aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal aka The Glider King dies of a fracture of the third cervical vertebra and a hemorrhage after falling the day before from a height of about 15 metres while still in his glider at the age of 48 in Universitätsmedizin Charité, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Lilienthal's last words to his brother Gustav were "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!"