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40th year  -  N° 226                 Thursday, 14 August 2025         Antwerpen		
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Monday 27th of February 1854

171 years 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.






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