Nik Wallenda
Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
In context
- When
- Sunday, June 23 201313 years ago
- Category
- Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2010s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
At a glance
Dates: From 2013.
What happened
Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.
June 23 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
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- 20012001 southern Peru earthquake
- 2005Reddit
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- 2013Nanga Parbat
- 2013Nik Wallenda
- 2014Syrian chemical weapons program
- 2016Brexit
- 20162016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum
- 2017June 2017 Pakistan attacks
- 2018Tham Luang cave rescue
Also in 2013
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- September 12NASANASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
- September 13TalibanTaliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead…
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- September 16Washington Navy Yard shootingA lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
- September 17Grand Theft Auto VGrand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
- September 18Via RailA VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
- November 17Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indi…
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June 23 2013 — 13 years ago, on a Sunday.
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