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41st year  -  N° 160                 Tuesday, 9 June 2026         Antwerpen		
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Monday 27th of February 1854
172 years, 3 months and 11 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.