1 moment from 1797 on 360n60, each told in 60 words or fewer.
On 22 October 1797, the Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin cut his basket loose from a hydrogen balloon about 1,000 m above Paris and floated down under a silk parachute. It swayed wildly, but he landed safely. It was the first parachute jump from such a height.
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