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41st year  -  N° 139                 Tuesday, 19 May 2026         Antwerpen		
Die Kleinen und die Bösen
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Sunday 25th of July 1909
117 years, 9 months and 25 days ago




37-year-old aviation pioneer Louis Blériot becomes the first man to fly from Calais, France across the English Channel in a heavier than air aircraft in Northfall Meadow, Dover, Kent, United Kingdom.

Blériot won the prize of £1,000 offered by the Daily Mail newspaper.