a balloon. 31 May – Albrecht Berblinger crashes a hang glider (possibly a copy of Degen's) into the Danube. A reproduction built according to the design drawing in 1986 is capable of flight. 1812 21 September – Francesco Zambeccari dies when his balloon catches fire on landing. 1819 6 July – Sophie Blanchard launches fireworks from her balloon in flight during an exhibition at the Tivoli Gardens in Paris. The fireworks ignite the gas in the balloon, which crashes on the roof of a house. She falls to her death, becoming the first woman to die in an aviation accident. 1824 25 May – Englishman Thomas Harris dies when his balloon crashes near Carshalton. His female passenger survives. The exact cause is not determined but is apparently due to a valve Harris has designed to release gas from the balloon becoming stuck open. Despite dropping all ballast Harris is unable to stop a precipitous plunge. 1836 7–8 November – Flight of a coal gas balloon (named The Great Balloon of Nassau) by Charles Green covering from London to Weilburg, Germany, in 18 hours with passengers Robert Hollond and Thomas Monck Mason. It is the first overnight balloon flight, and it sets a world ballooning distance record that will stand until 1907 in aviation#1907. 1837 Robert Cocking jumps from a balloon piloted by Charles Green at a height of to demonstrate a parachute of his own design, and is killed in the attempt. 1838 4 September – Charles Green, George Rush, and Edward Spencer ascend to an altitude of over England in the Great Balloon of Nassau before landing at Thaxted. 10 September – Green and Rush ascend to a world record altitude of over England in the Great Balloon of Nassau, reaching speeds of during the flight. 1839 The American John Wise introduces the ripping panel which is still used today. The panel solved the problem of the balloon dragging along the ground at landing and needing to be stopped with the help of anchors. Charles Green and the astronomer Spencer Rush ascend to in a free balloon. 1840 Louis Anslem Lauriat makes the first manned flight in Canada, at Saint John, New Brunswick, in his balloon Star of the East. 1841 An ironsmith kalfa (journeyman) named Manojlo who "came to Belgrade from Vojvodina" attempts to fly an ornithopter. Forbidden to take off from the belfry of St. Michael's Cathedral