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Horseshoe Falls [29] Lussier survived going over the falls in a large ball with a spring steel frame and a rubber covering. [3] 4 July 1930: George Stathakis: Fatality: Horseshoe Falls [30] Stathakis, a Greek immigrant working as a chef in Buffalo, New York, went over the falls in a barrel. Upon impact, the barrel was stuck behind a curtain of ...
Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921) was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. [1] Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. She died penniless and her funeral was paid for by public ...
Kirk Raymond Jones (1962 or 1963 – c. April 19, 2017) was an American who became the first person to survive going over Horseshoe Falls, the largest waterfall of Niagara Falls, without safety equipment, in 2003. He then went over Niagara Falls again in 2017 with a plastic ball and died.
A former window washer has admitted to having a different perspective on life since surviving a 47-floor fall while working nearly 10 years ago.
A week later in September 1889, Graham achieved the ambition of his lifetime, going over the falls and surviving. His wife had been reluctant to consent to his voyage unless his barrel was sent over the falls first, which was done and it managed the trip safely in approximately 35 minutes.
Mere seconds after the Dali hit the bridge, it appeared to snap and fall into the dark water below. “My husband doesn’t know how to swim. It is a miracle he survived,” the wife said.
Bobby Leach and his barrel after his trip over Niagara Falls, 1911. Bobby Leach's grave, Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. Bobby Leach (born Lancaster, England; 1858 – April 26, 1926) was the second person and first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 — while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901.
Chianti climbed over a four-foot guardrail Monday night at Luna Island to get to the precipice from which she would lead her children to their demise. The view of the Niagara Falls from New York ...