On October 24, 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie
Edson Taylor (above) became the first person to successfully
take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.

Her motives were financial but she never made much money
from her adventure.

No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and
survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the
border.

Taylor, on her 63rd birthday, was accompanied by her cat.

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921)

The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial
passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound
from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International
Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport on October 24,
2003.

A large crowd of spectators greeted the plane’s arrival in
London, which coincided with two other final Concorde
flights from Edinburgh and the Bay of Biscay.

Johnny (John William) Carson

Carson was a TV host, comedian, and writer best known as the
host of NBC‘s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–
1992).

Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television
Academy‘s 1980 Governor’s Award and a 1985 Peabody Award.

He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in
1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

Disney released "Dumbo," a film about a circus elephant
with huge ears who was ridiculed until a mouse shows
him he can use his ears to fly.

Dumbo was set to be crowned TIME Magazine’s "Mammal
of the Year" in late 1941, but got bumped off the cover by
Pearl Harbor.

The film is one of the studio’s shortest animated features
at 64 minutes.