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OddlyTrue News Stand — October 12
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Weird history on October 12
1799 First everJeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 metres (3,000 ft) in the gondola of a hot air balloon.
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- 1799 First ever
Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
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1892 First everThe Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1921
East St. Louis daily journal (East St. Louis, Ill.), October 12, 1921, (EXTRA)
Page 8 · mentions "hoax" · printed on this very day
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