@BhargavRao, actually, I can just copy-paste the answer from the link, but I think that this question can be also marked as a dupe of the question I refer to. However, I'm not sure... â Ilya V. Schurov Dec 2 '14 at 13:00.
First barrel ride down Niagara Falls. On this day in 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. After her husband died in the Civil War, the New York-born Taylor moved all over the U. S. before settling in Bay City, Michigan, around 1898.
Man jumps off Monroe Street Bridge. SPOKANE, Wash. - The Monroe Street Bridge is now re-opened after police spent more than 20 hours negotiating with a man that would not get off the bridge. The man who appeared to be in his 30's, died after jumping off the bridge around 3:30 p.m. Friday. His name and the reason he was on the bridge have not been released. The towering bridge carries four lanes of traffic over the Spokane River, near the Federal Building.