On this day, the French tightrope walker and acrobat, Charles Blondin, crossed the Niagara Gorge on a 340 metre tightrope suspended 49 metres above the water, a feat that made him an instant celebrity throughout the world. He went on to repeat the performance several times, often with different theatrical variations: blindfolded, in a sack, pushing a wheelbarrow, on stilts, carrying his manager Harry Colcord on his back, sitting down midway while he cooked and ate an omelette, or standing on a chair with only one of its legs balanced on the rope. At the age of 71, he walked on a tightrope across Waterloo Lake in Roundhay Park, Leeds, several times. Blondin died at his ‘Niagara House’ in London, on 22nd February 1897, at the age of 72, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.
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