Jun
30
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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