On This Day in Tech History

JFK’s Address on Cuban Missile Crisis Shocks the Nation
1962In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States, including Washington, D.C.

First Parachute Jump is Made Over Paris
1797The first parachute jump of note is made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,200 feet above Paris.Leonardo da Vinci conceived the idea of the parachute in his writings, and the Frenchman Louis-Sebastien Lenormand fashioned a kind of parachute out of two umbrellas and jumped from a tree in 1783, but André-Jacques Garnerin was the first to design and test parachutes capable of slowing a man’s fall from a high altitude.

India Launches Its First Lunar Mission
2008Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in October 2008, and operated until August 2009.
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