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41st year  -  N° 11                 Sunday, 11 January 2026         Antwerpen		
Through the Night Softly
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Monday 27th of February 1854
172 years, 10 months and 13 days ago




44-year-old romantic composer Robert Schumann tries to commit suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the Rhine River in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Schumann was rescued by boatmen and taken home, he asked to be taken to an asylum for the insane.