@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.
Storyline. Based on the true story of Jessica McClure who fell into a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. She was stuck in the well 22 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth too much with machinery, it could cause her to fall further down and die.