First tightrope walk over Niagara Falls
Who
Jean Francois Gravelet aka Charles Blondin
What
1859/6/30 first
Where
United States (Niagara)
When

The greatest 19th century tightrope walker, Jean Francois Gravelet, alias Charles Blondin (1824 -1897), of France, made the earliest crossing of the Niagara Falls on a 76mm 3in rope 335m 1,100ft long and 47.75m 160ft above the Falls on 30 June 1859. <br />