On this day:
1779: French balloonist André-Jacques Garnerin becomes the First Person to Jump With a Parachute
1884: International Meridian Conference Adopts Greenwich, England as initial longitudinal meridian
2008: India Launches its First Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-1
Born on this day:
1811: Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist, composer
1870: Ivan Bunin, Russian author, poet, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1954: Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet
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