He gave two-thirds of his $150 million fortune to charity in 1962 President John F Kennedy announced that the US was placing Cuba under naval blockade until the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle ballistic missile sites on the island in 1990 the Aral Sea in central Asia - once the worldвЂ™s fourth-largest freshwater lake - was revealed to be an ecological disaster by the Royal Geographical Society, as a result of irrigation policies by the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Among the spectators was Jeanne GeneviГЁve Labrosse, his future wife, who became the first female parachutist in 1799 in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened in New York with a performance of Charles GounodвЂ™s Faust in 1938 Chester F Carlson, a US physicist, made the first photocopied image, which was publicly demonstrated exactly ten years later. Huguenots emigrated in huge numbers to England and other countries in 1797 the first parachute descent was made, successfully, by AndrГ©-Jacques Garnerin from a hydrogen balloon 3,000 feet above the Parc Monceau, Paris. In 451 the Council of Chalcedon drafted a creed defining JesusвЂ™s divinity in 1685 Louis XIV issued the Edict of Fontainebleau, depriving French Protestants of all religious and civil liberties.

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