@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.
Vesna VuloviÄ was a Serbian flight attendant. She holds the Guinness world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 metres. Her fall took place after an explosion tore through the baggage compartment of JAT Flight 367 on 26 January 1972, causing it to crash near SrbskÃ¡ Kamenice, Czechoslovakia. She was the sole survivor of the crash, which air safety investigators attributed to a briefcase bomb. The Yugoslav authorities suspected that Croatian nationalists were to ...