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The first daring parachute jump in history
In this short video I share a fun Today in History moment from October 22, 1797, when André Jacques Garnerin made the first ...
One hundred years ago, an Army daredevil completed the first parachute jump from a plane. But the history of the chute goes all the way back to Leonardo da Vinci, and all the way up to today's ...
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