@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.
Woman survives when her car is knocked 40ft off Chesapeake Bay Bridge - a crossing so scary people pay $25 for a professional to drive - after she SWAM to safety. Fear of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was renewed Friday evening when a car crash caused a vehicle to be knocked off the bridge and plummet 40 feet into the bay below. CBS Baltimore identified the survivor as 22-year-old Morgan Jade Lake of Sunderland, Maryland.