Tag: Blondin

ON THIS DAY: Blondin’s tightrope walk across Niagara Falls (1859)

On this day in 1859, French acrobat Jean-François Gravelet, better known by his stage name Blondin, became the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. The 35-year-old crossed...

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