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This Day in History:
October 20, 1922

Lt. (later Maj. Gen.) Harold Harris bails out of a crippled plane he was testing at McCook Field, Dayton, OH, thus becoming the first member of the Caterpillar Club - those people whose lives have been saved by parachutes.