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1829 Nov 13 |
Sam Patch (~23), stunt diver, dove 125 feet from a platform at the Genesee Falls on Friday the 13th in Rochester, NY. His body was found the following March in the Genesee River ice. In 2003 Paul E. Johnson authored "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper." Links: USA, New York, Jumper 
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1938 Oct 17 |
Evel Knieval (d. Nov 30, 2007) was born as Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr. He became a US daredevil motorcycle stunt man, showman, entertainer, Member Motorcycle Hall of Fame and Guiness World Record Holder. Links: USA, Jumper
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1960 Aug 16 |
American test pilot Joe Kittinger’s history-making parachute jump was from an altitude of 102,800 feet, or 19.3 miles. In a gondola lifted by a 360-foot helium balloon, Kittinger reached the highest altitude ever reached by man in nonpowered flight. His free fall lasted four minutes and 36 seconds and he became the first man to exceed the speed of sound without an aircraft or space vehicle. In 1984 Kittinger became the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in a helium balloon alone. Links: USA, Aviation, Balloon, Jumper
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1961 Jul 1 |
Carl Lewis (Olympic Gold Medallist: 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4x100 meter relay [1984]; 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, a world record, long jump, 4x100 meter relay [1988], long jump and 4x100 relay [1992]; Olympic Hall of Famer; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1983, 1984]), was born. Links: USA, Olympics, Jumper
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1966 |
Brian Lee Schubert (1940-2006) and a friend became the first people to parachute from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Schubert was killed in 2006 when his chute opened late at a jump festival in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Links: USA, California, Jumper
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1968 Oct 18 |
The US Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, for giving a black power salute as a protest during a victory ceremony in Mexico City. Bob Beamon soared 29 feet, 2 inches, to set a world record in the long jump. In 1976 Dick Schaap authored “The Perfect Jump.” Links: USA, Olympics, Mexico, Jumper
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1970 Jan 23 |
Evel Knievel made a motorcycle jump over parked cars and trucks at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Ca. Links: USA, Jumper, Daly City
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1970 Sep 7 |
Donald Boyles set a record for the highest parachute jump from a bridge by leaping off of 1,053 ft Royal George Bridge in Colorado. Links: USA, Colorado, Jumper
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1974 Sep 8 |
Evel Knievel (b.1938) attempted to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho on his rocket-powered motorcycle. He failed and parachuted down. Links: USA, Idaho, Jumper
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1977 Dec 22 |
Thomas Helms (26) climbed to the edge of the observation deck on the eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building, and jumped intending to kill himself on the streets 1000s of feet below. He only fell twenty feet before landing on a narrow ledge on the 85th floor. Helms suffered no major injuries but was knocked unconscious for half-an-hour--adequate time for an emergency crew to bring him safely inside. Links: USA, NYC, Jumper
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1980 Nov 8 |
In West Virginia Bridge Day began when parachutists began jumping from the 876-foot New River Gorge Bridge over the New River. It became annual and was scheduled on the 3rd Saturday of October. The New River is second oldest river in the world. Only the Nile is older. It is also one of only two rivers in the world which flows south to north. Links: USA, West Virginia, Jumper
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1986 |
The frog, Rosie the Ribeter, set a new leaping record at Angels Camp in California with a jump of 21 ft 5.75 inches. Links: USA, California, Jumper
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1991 Mar 15 |
Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka cleared a record 20 feet during an international meet in San Sebastian, Spain. Links: Russia, Spain, Jumper
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1995 Sep 10 |
A plane carrying members of a skydivers club crashed in Shacklefords, Virginia, killing ten parachutists, the plane’s pilot and a man on the ground. Links: Air Crash, Virginia, Jumper
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1997 Dec 7 |
Three skydivers, 2 Americans and an Austrian, died while jumping to the South Pole on a trip organized by Adventure Network Int’l. Links: Antarctica, Jumper
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1999 May 20 |
Robbie Knievel (37) jumped a 200-foot-wide chasm over the Grand Canyon with his motorcycle. His old world record was 223 feet. Links: Arizona, World Record, Jumper
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1999 Jul 6 |
Thor Alex Kappfjell (32) was killed during a miscalculated jump in Norway. He had earlier parachuted from the World Trade Center, Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building in NYC, after which he pleaded guilty to 3 counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to 7 days of community service. Links: Norway, Jumper
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1999 Aug 4 |
Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomajor was stripped of his gold medal from the Pan American Games after he tested positive for cocaine. Links: Cuba, Drugs, Jumper
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1999 Oct 22 |
In California Jan Davis (60), co-owner of an aerial photography business in Santa Barbara, plunged to her death during a skydiving stunt from El Capitan in Yosemite. The stunt was to protest the banning of sport parachuting from cliffs in national parks. Links: California, Photography, Jumper
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2004 Jan 24 |
In Bangkok, Thailand, a world record for a mass jump was set by 672 skydivers from 42 countries who leaped from six aircraft. Links: Thailand, Aviation, Jumper
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2004 Jun 13 |
Former President George H.W. Bush celebrated his 80th birthday with a 13,000-foot parachute jump over his presidential library in College Station, Texas. Links: Texas, BushHW, Jumper
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2005 Aug 26 |
An Iranian daredevil died while attempting to break the world record for jumping over buses on a motorcycle. Javad Palizbanian (44) was trying to leap over 22 buses parked side-by-side when his motorbike came down on the 13th bus. Links: Iran, World Record, Jumper
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2006 Nov 18 |
In Belgium Els Van Doren (38) smashed into a back garden from some 4,500 meters because both her main and reserve parachutes failed to open after she jumped from a plane with Els Clottemans (26), their lover, Dutchman Marcel Somers, and another man. In 2010 Els Clottemans went on trial charged with the murder of her fellow skydiver and love rival. She was convicted and jailed for 30 years for killing her rival. Links: Belgium, Murder, Jumper
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2007 Nov 30 |
Evel Knievel (b.1938), the hard-living US motorcycle daredevil, died in Florida. His rocket-powered jumps and stunts made him an international icon in the 1970s. Links: USA, Florida, Jumper
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2010 Sep 28 |
In Malaysia Kylie Tanti Marion (42), an Australian woman, fell to her death when her parachute failed to open after she jumped off the Alor Setar Tower to practice for the KL Tower International Jump on Oct. 7. Links: Australia, Malaysia, Jumper
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