@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.
Phineas Gage: A Rod Went Through His Skull. Cavendish, Vermont. A memorial plaque to one of America's oddest celebrities is bolted to a rock in the tiny town of Cavendish, Vermont. It honors Phineas P. Gage, who had a 13-pound iron rod blown into his skull, through his brain, and out the top of his head. That's an interesting story, but what makes it plaque-worthy is that Gage survived. In fact, he never even lost consciousness.