@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.
She was upset over a failed relationship, said Officer Bernadette Rainy, a police spokeswoman. She said the investigation was continuing. The police said it was rare for someone to survive a jump from the bridge. In 1989, a Staten Island woman survived a jump and was later seen walking on a nearby beach. In 1975, a New Jersey college student survived a leap. Room for Debate asks whether shorefront homeowners should have to open their land to all comers.