Almanac: The First Flying Trapeze Act
And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: November 12, 1859, 158 years ago today … a day for defying gravity.
For that was the day Jules Leotard performed the world’s first flying trapeze act in Paris.
His aerial acrobatics astonished audiences, while his costume, created by his wife, came to be known as, yes, the leotard.
As if that weren’t enough, Jules Leotard also inspired the popular lyric “The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze.”…
Read the full article at CBS News
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