Talk:Robert Cocking

A fact from Robert Cocking appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 December 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Robert Cocking was the first person to die in a parachuting accident, after a parachute of his own design (pictured) failed during a test at Vauxhall Gardens in 1837?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/December.

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r u sure he was the first person[edit]

i don't think so as a man in 13th century also did the same fate.Yousaf465