1962:Addressing a national television audience, President John F. Kennedy announces the United States will impose a naval quarantine around Cuba, following the discovery of nearly completed Soviet missile sites on the island. Kennedy calls the Soviet weapons buildup a “clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace,” and threatens to retaliate against the Soviet Union if any missiles are launched.
1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, using a silk parachute of his own invention, approximately 1,000 meters above Parc Monceau, Paris.
1964: French existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature but declines the honor, explaining that he does not want to become “institutionalized” or take sides in the East-West cultural struggle.
1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump, using a silk parachute of his own invention, approximately 1,000 meters above Parc Monceau, Paris.
1964: French existentialist author Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in literature but declines the honor, explaining that he does not want to become “institutionalized” or take sides in the East-West cultural struggle.
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