IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — Today is October 24. On this day in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. A school teacher, with a school teacher's ...

Oct. 24 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. In 1929, $5 billion in market values were swept away in the ...

Exactly 100 years ago, schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to shoot the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel. Though she lived to tell the tale, not many people were interested in hearing it ...

No one who has survived going over Niagara Falls has been able to cash in on the daring escapades. The man who successfully went over unprotected last week believes otherwise. Time will tell whether ...