12 September – The Inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained bu tethered flightin his self-built Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small island of Lindholm outside Copenhagen, three years after the world’s first historical flight by the Wright brothers in 1903.
In this aircraft, Ellehammer made a short hop on Lindholm Island on 16 August, and a sustained flight on 12 September, covering 42 metres at an altitude of around 50 cm (140 ft at around 2 ft).
The island of Lindholm in Stege Bugt is state-owned, and is the location for the State Veterinary Institute for Virus Research (Statens Veterinære Institut for Virusforskning).
Risum-Lindholm is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
He currently lives in Lidingö outside of Stockholm with his wife Lotta Bäcker and their son Loa Lindholm.
(For Olli Lindholm discography with Yö, refer to the band's discography section)