1978 Event Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia 1975 Death Frank Sully, actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at 67 1972 Event Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute 1970 Event Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1970 Event Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado 1969 Event U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus 1967 Event U.S.S.R. launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus 1965 Event O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') 1944 Event RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute 1944 Event Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives 1942 Event 1st nylon parachute jump, Hartford Ct-Adeline Gray 1942 Birthday Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper, world record 3,300' 1940 Event U.S. forms parachute troops 1940 Event 1st parachute wedding 1919 Event 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) 1919 Event Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall 1913 Event 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pegoud-France) 1913 Event Frenchman Pegoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe 1913 Event Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1912 Event Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Event Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Event Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1898 Birthday Ivan Triesault, born in Estonia, actor, Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute 1876 Event 1st Belgian parachute jump (Glorieux) 1819 Event 1st parachute jump in U.S. 1797 Event Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute jump from balloon (Paris)
