Editing Defenestration (section)

=== Notable autodefenestrations ===
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[[File:Défenestration.jpg|thumb|A stuntman diving out a window]]
''Autodefenestration'' (or ''self-defenestration'') is the term used for the act of [[jumping]], propelling oneself, or causing oneself to fall, out of a window. 
* In the [[Acts of the Apostles]] in the [[New Testament]], the accidental autodefenestration of a young man of [[Alexandria Troas|Troas]] named [[Eutychus]] is recorded. The [[Apostle Paul]] was travelling to [[Jerusalem]] and had stopped for seven days in Troas. While Paul was preaching in a third-story room late on a Sunday night to the local assembly of Christian believers, Eutychus drifted off to sleep and fell out of the window in which he was sitting. The text indicates that Eutychus did not survive but was brought back to life after Paul embraced him. ({{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Acts|chapter=20|verse=6|range=–12}})
*In December 1840, [[Abraham Lincoln]] and four other Illinois legislators jumped out of a window in a political maneuver designed to prevent a [[quorum]] on a vote that would have eliminated the Illinois State Bank.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evon |first1=Dan |title=Did Abraham Lincoln Jump Out a Window to Prevent a Quorum? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/abraham-lincoln-window-quorum/ |website=Snopes |access-date=17 January 2023|date=15 July 2021}}</ref>
*During the [[Revolutions of 1848 in the German states|Revolutions of 1848]], an agitated crowd forced their way into the town hall in [[Cologne]] and two city councilors panicked and jumped out of the window; one of them broke both his legs. The event went down in the city's history as the "Cologne Defenestration".<ref>{{cite news |first=Manfred |last=Demmer |url=http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12219 |title=Der 'Kölner Fenstersturz' 1848 |newspaper=Neue Rheinische Zeitung |date=2008-03-26 |language=de |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152854/http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12219 |archive-date=2015-04-02 }}</ref>
*In 1961, while being arrested by communist secret service Polish activist [[Henryk Holland]] jumped out of window, which led to his death. This event was then widely discussed by dissidents and theories of a possible murder were popular.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Persak |first=Krzysztof |title=Sprawa Henryka Hollanda |publisher=Instytut Pamięci Narodowej |year=2006 |isbn=978-83-60464-06-9}}</ref>
* In 1991, British informer [[Martin McGartland]] was abducted by members of the [[Provisional IRA]]. As he waited to be interrogated, McGartland escaped the IRA by jumping from a third floor window in a [[Twinbrook, Belfast|Twinbrook]] flat where he was taken for interrogation following his abduction, and survived the fall.
* On July 9, 1993, the prominent [[Toronto]] attorney [[Death of Garry Hoy|Garry Hoy]] fell from a 24th story window in an attempt to demonstrate to a group of new legal interns that the windows of the city's [[Toronto-Dominion Centre]] were unbreakable. He performed the same stunt on several previous occasions – dramatically slamming his body against the window – but this time it popped out of its frame and he fell to his death. The accident was commemorated by a 1996 [[Darwin Award]] and has been re-enacted in several films and television shows.<ref>{{cite web | first1=Barbara |last1=Mikkelson |first2=David P. |last2=Mikkelson| title=Through a Glass, Quickly | url=http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp| work=Snopes| date=21 January 2007| access-date=5 September 2011}}</ref><ref name=GM031407>{{cite news| first=Jaquie| last=McNish| title=Law firm Goodman and Carr shutting down| work=The Globe and Mail| date=14 March 2007| access-date=2011-09-08| url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/law-firm-goodman-and-carr-shutting-down/article747414/| url-status=live| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026031938/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/law-firm-goodman-and-carr-shutting-down/article747414/| archive-date=26 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first1=Barbara | last1=Mikkelson | first2=David P. | last2=Mikkelson | title=1996 Darwin Awards: Lawyer Aloft | url=http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1996-01.html | work=Darwin Awards | date=1996 | access-date=5 September 2011 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903071056/http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1996-01.html | archive-date=3 September 2011 }}</ref>
*In 1995, the French philosopher [[Gilles Deleuze]] jumped from his Paris apartment to his death.<ref>{{cite web | last=Marzoni | first=Andrew | title=The Philosophical Leftovers of Gilles Deleuze | website=The Nation | date=2020-08-03 | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/gilles-deleuze-letters-other-texts/ | access-date=2022-03-11}}</ref>
*In 1999, popular German Schlager singer [[Rex Gildo]] committed suicide by jumping out of the window of his apartment building.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-10-27 |title=Nach dem Selbstmordversuch: Rex Gildo ist tot |language=de |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/nach-dem-selbstmordversuch-rex-gildo-ist-tot-a-49431.html |access-date=2022-09-01 |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
*In 2001, at least [[Casualties of the September 11 attacks#Deaths by jumping or falling|104 people]] jumped out of the [[Twin Towers (New York City)|Twin Towers]] on [[September 11 attacks|9/11]].