September 8 in History: London is the target of a German airship attack in World War I

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On September 8, 1915, the German Zeppelin, commanded by Heinrich Mathy, attacked central London. The offensive resulted in the death of 22 people and caused a loss of £500,000. The Zeppelin, a rigid motorized airship, was designed by German inventor Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in 1900. Although a French inventor developed an airship decades earlier, the Zeppelin was the largest ever built due to its steel frame. However, this steel structure had…