Mar 14 1931

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First liquid-fuel rocket successfully fired in Europe, a methane-liquid oxygen rocket constructed by Johannes Winkler and flown from Gross Kuehnau, Dessau. Germany. It reached an altitude of about 1000 feet. The rocket was two feet long and one foot in diameter.