@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.
Caleb Thomas Schwab, 10, died of a neck injury on the slide in August. ( 1 CNN)A Kansas City water park will shut down the world's largest water slide in response to an accident that killed a 10-year-old boy in August. 2  Caleb Thomas Schwab died from a neck injury August 7 while riding the 17-story VerrÃ¼ckt water slide.