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- 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin became the first woman to make a parachute descent, falling 900 m (3,000 ft) in a hot-air balloon gondola.
Uddevalla Suffrage Association
- 1890 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association was founded in Uddevalla, Sweden, with the purpose of bringing about universal suffrage.
- 1928 – An "iron lung" medical ventilator was used for the first time, to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.
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