On This Day: Groundhogs and Base-Jumpers
Groundhog Day? Puh-lease. That’s what you’d expect, though, right? But did you know that today in 1912 the very first stuntman did his very first stunt? On Feb. 2, 1912, Frederick Rodman Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty with a parachute, earning himself a $1,500 paycheck from a movie company, Pathe, that shot the…