How will you be remembered?

•On Oct. 26, 1881, after years of feuding and mounting tensions, the Earp brothers, along with their friend Doc Holliday, and Clanton-McLaurys cowboys engage in their world-famous shoot-out near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., leaving three men dead and three more wounded.

•On Oct. 24, 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor initiates a famous stunt tradition when she goes over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel 5 feet high and 3 feet in diameter. Taylor reaped few financial rewards and died in poverty after 20 years as a Niagara street vendor.

•On Oct. 23, 1925, talk show host Johnny Carson is born in Corning, Iowa. He began occasionally guest-hosting for Jack Paar on “The Tonight Show” and became its permanent host in 1962. Carson retired in 1992 and died in Los Angeles on Jan. 23, 2005.