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41st year  -  N° 160                 Tuesday, 9 June 2026         Antwerpen		
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Monday 10th of August 1896
130 years, 9 months and 30 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!"