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Parachute
1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia

1975 Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67

1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute

1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1970 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado

1969 U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus

1967 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus

1965 O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250')

1944 RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives

1942 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray

1942 Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper, world record 3,300'

1940 U.S. forms parachute troops

1940 1st parachute wedding

1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin)

1919 Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall

1913 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France)

1913 Frenchman Pegoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe

1913 Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane

1912 Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1912 Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1898 Ivan Triesault, born in Estonia, actor, Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute

1876 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux)

1819 1st parachute jump in U.S.

1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)



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