June 30

Is it one of the requirements of the American Immigration and Naturalization Service that in order to obtain an entry visa French acrobats have to be completely out of their minds? On August 7, 1974, Philippe Pettite repeatedly walked back and forth between New York’s World Trade Center towers on a tightrope that had been strung between the roofs of the two buildings. On the 30th in 1859, acrobat Jean François Gravelet-Blondin, known as The Great Blondin, crossed Niagara Falls numerous times on a tightrope. He did it blindfolded in a sack, pushing a wheelbarrow, on stilts, and carrying his manager, Harry Colcord, on his back. Doing all that he worked up quite an appetite so on one trip, he sat down midway to cook and eat an omelet.
When he was five years old Blondin was sent to the École de Gymnase to study acrobatics, and, after six months training as an acrobat, made his first public appearance as "The Little Wonder".