According to the Minneapolis – St. Paul Star Tribune, on this day in 1859…

French acrobat Charles Blondin (born Jean Francois Gravelet) walked back and forth on a tightrope above the gorge of Niagara Falls as thousands of spectators watched.

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  1. [...] June 30 I posted about one of Blondin’s trips across the gorge. The Nashua Telegraph has some more detailed [...]

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