@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.
Medics preformed CPR on the victims as they were rushed to waiting ambulances. A woman and a man believed to be in their 40s or 50s leapt from the George Washington Bridge on Monday. They were in critical condition after NYPD units pulled them from the Hudson River and took them to a hospital, where they died. The woman washed ashore at the West 125th Street Pier - some 1,000ft down river.