@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.
A Mississippi Marine was laid to rest in Summit Saturday. Marine Lance Corporal Casey Casanova died in Iraq last Saturday along with three other marines when a missile struck their humvee. Casanova is believed to be the first Mississippi woman to lose her life to the war in Iraq. But this marine won't be remembered for how she died. She'll be remembered by how she lived.