Word: zacchinis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Hugo Zacchini, 77, a circus performer who, while musing about the trajectory of the grenades he had to duck as an Italian artilleryman during World War I, conceived his famous human cannonball act; of a stroke; in San Bernardino, Calif. Using a compressed-air cannon, Zacchini made his maiden flight (some 130 ft.) in Cairo in 1922. In 1929, John Ringling lured him to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where he performed for another 32 years...