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Today's Google Doodle is special and will certainly give your imagination wings! Celebrating the 216th anniversary of the world's first parachute jump, today's colorful Doodle is a beautiful tribute to one of world's oldest flying practice.
Today's Doodle shows a a parachutist going up in the air with a balloon and descending while he runs into clouds and flying birds.
For the first time ever, on October 22, 1797, Andre-Jacques Garnerin, a French daredevil made 3,000ft plunge from a balloon using a silk parachute, thereby, making way for future parachutes.
Although he began his early parachuting expedition with umbrella-shaped devices, he later invented the vented parachute to improve the stability of the fall.
“Following the jump, Garnerin was granted the title Official Aeronaut of France and he went on to become a well-known international figure.”
AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury
