A man is struck by lightning in July opportunities.

A man is struck by lightning in July opportunities.

A man is struck by lightning in July opportunities.

On this day in 1977, the ranger Roy Cleveland Sullivan was struck by lightning reaching record seven times. Also known as the "Human Lightning," the Guinness Book of Records recognizes Sullivan as the person who has been struck by lightning more number of times from which records are available.

Sullivan was born in Greene County, Virginia, on February 7, 1912. He began working as a ranger at Shenandoah National Park in 1936. The probability of being struck by lightning seven times is 1 in 3,000 to the seventh power .

 During his 36-year career, Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times and survived them but did not escape completely unscathed.The first lightning struck him in April 1942. Sullivan hid a thunderstorm in an observation tower that had no lightning rod. They fell several beams in the tower which caused electricity passed inside. Sullivan ran out and caught the first ray of that record. The lightning left a half-inch burn along his right leg and made a hole in the shoe.


Sullivan finally died in 1983, at age 71, for a shot in the stomach, due to unrequited love unrelated to weather events fired.

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