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Events on Friday 1 March 1912 1
1912First parachute jump from an airplaneAlbert Berry jumps over MissouriAviator Albert Berry makes the first successful parachute jump from a moving airplane, leaping from a Benoist biplane above Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri. His parachute is packed into a canister attached to the aircraft's underside and deploys as he falls.