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Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
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.
The above-stated death tolls are listed in the USACE report on cleanup efforts in the storm, [3] ... such as St. Catharines Thorold, Niagara Falls, ...
Death toll tops 40 after Ida's remnants blindside Northeast. ... that the heavens would literally open up and bring Niagara Falls level of water to the streets of New York,” said Hochul, ...
Steven Trotter (November 13, 1960 – October 14, 2022) was an American daredevil who at age 24 became the youngest person to have gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel. He was one of a few people to perform the stunt twice.
Two people in the car were killed in the fiery incident on the Rainbow Bridge, which leads into and out of Canada at Niagara Falls, that occurred minutes before 11:30 a.m., officials said.
The rushing waters of Niagara Falls were partially frozen over amid a vicious winter storm that blanketed parts of the ... Kentucky flooding and cold weather death toll rises to 22; FEMA to tour ...
November 16 – Moonglow Hotel fire in Niagara Falls, New York, killed 18. 1958 ... the highest death toll from a structure fire in the city's history. ...