frist person to survive a drop oner niagara falls

on  24 oct  1901 amiercan schoolteacher  annie Edson  Taylor becarme  the first  person to survive the 15-m (167-ft) drop over new yorks niagara falls when she plummeted over horseshoe falls the  largest of the three niagara waterfalls in barrel. A crowd watched from the foot of the falls many convinced that she was facing certain death. However althought  battered and biuised she made it. The feat was made all the more impressive by the fact that it took on her 63rd birthday. between 1901 and 1955 a total of 15 people tried to mimic annie daredevilry five of them perished.