Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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