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May 31

  • 1915 - First Zeppelin raid on London, made by LZ 38. Seven people killed, fourteen wounded.
  • 1911 - Andre Beaumont beats Roland Garros in the Paris to Rome air race, completing the 1,465 km (910 mile) course in 28 hours, 5 minutes.
  • 1811 - Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger, the "tailor of Ulm" (Germany) crashes in his apparatus, a copy of Degen's, into the Danube. It was presumably a workable hang glider.
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