1797 – Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon (Paris)
1938 – Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
1959 – Bob Merrill’s musical “Take Me Along” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 448 performances
1964 – French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1968 – Apollo 7 returns to Earth
1986 – “Into the Light” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 6 performances
1989 – Red Khmer occupies Pailin in Cambodia
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2012 – Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
2013 – 37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria
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