@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.
It's by far the best account of events I have read. Editor Lord Lucan.com At 9.45pm on the night of 7th November 1974, a distressed and bloodstained woman burst into the bar of The Plumber s Arms, Lower Belgrave Street, crying out Help me, help me, help me. I ve just escaped from being murdered.