This Day in History:
October 19, 1874
Prof. Washington H. Donaldson performs the world’s first aerial wedding, between Miss Elizabeth Walsh, a featured equestrienne with P.T. Barnum’s Roman Hippodrome act, and Charles Colton, another Barnum performer. Besides Donaldson, the bride and the groom, the balloon carried two witnesses and the Rev. Howard B. Jefferies. The flight departed from Cincinnati’s Lincoln Park.
American Aviation Historical Society
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