July 30,1855 Niagara Falls Ontario - Jean-François Gravelet the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 30,1844 Halifax Nova Scotia - Four sailors from ship, Saladin, hanged for piracy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 30,1783 Kingston Ontario - Landing of the 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Regiment of New York at Cataraqui to rebuild Fort Frontenac and prepare for the arrival of the Loyalists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 30,1609 Ticonderoga, New York - Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 joins skirmish with Iroquois at Crown Point; kills two chiefs with his arquebus; first French military action in America; Champlain the first European to use firearms against the North American natives; beginning of the First Iroquois War, to 1624. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------