Almanac: The first high-altitude jump
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Andre-Jacques Garnerin descends in a basket attached to a parachute from about 1,000 meters above Parc Monceau in Paris, October 22, 1797. And now a page from our `Sunday Morning` Almanac: October 22nd, 1797, 220 years ago today the day Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin cut loose from a balloon 3,000 feet above Paris and drifted down to Earth in a basket underneath his own homemade parachute. ......