On This Day
Published Date:
25 June 2008
June 30
1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. He crossed the waterfall numerous times after this, each time doing a different theatrical performance.
1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity.
1977 - Virginia Wade wins the Ladies Singles title at Wimbledon, the last British champion at the All England Club to date.
1990 - East and West Germany merge their economies.
2007 - A car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist attack.
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