Before her first-ever parachute jump, she said that one "must always look for something new," as she admitted after the skydive that it was "a bit scary" and that she had shut her eyes before jumping.

JAN 4, 1912: Reckless inventor Franz Reichelt was filmed jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower after testing the world’s first parachute suit on this day in 1912. The 33-year-old Austrian-born ...