OCTOBER 24, 1901: On this day in history, 62-year-old Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell about it. It was an unusually foolish stunt, especially for someone of her age. Other morons have followed; some of them died.

She later became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in physics.  No, just kidding.