Harry Houdini

Houdini was a young boy when he started his magic acts.

Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874

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Harry Houdini was an American magician, born in the late 1800's. He was best known for being an escape artist and stunt-man. His most famous 'tricks/stunts' included escaping from straight jackets and escaping a various locking mechanisms while underwater. He claimed that he could sustain any blow to his upper body without injury. Numerous people challenged him on this claim. Eventually his body did give out and he died of peritonitis due to a ruptured appendix.
Harry Houdini was an Hungarian-American illusionist and stunt performer. He died in October 31, 1926.

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houdini`s wife (aka Bess) died February 11, 1943 from a heart attack while in Needles, California, aboard an eastbound train traveling from Los Angeles to New York City.

He wanted to run away from the house and join a circus as a trapese artist

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Harry Houdini was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He was also a skeptic who set out to expose frauds purporting to be supernatural phenomena.

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Harry Houdini was about 5' 4". He was small, but he was a very muscular man.

Houdini did many very popular tricks including:

Once Houdini told an audience that if they brought him a pair of handcuffs that he could not escape, he would give them 100 dollars. He never paid one person.

Escaping from straight-jackets from high up places. Such as cranes and tall buildings.

Another famous escape was when Houdini did the famous "Bridge Jump" into the San Fransisco Bay with a 75 pound ball and chain shackled onto his ankles and also handcuffs on his wrists.

Then there is the "Needle Trick", he swallowed many needles and then pulled the needles hooked on a string from his throat.

Houdini let people punch him in the abdomonan, once however someone snuck up on him when he wasn't paying attention, some historians think that incident killed him. he died in the same town that he escaped from under the ice.

he did super extra tricks and visible ones so everyone could see

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1920 The 1920 edition of Funk & Wagnall's dictionary includes the verb "hou-di-nize," meaning "to release or extricate oneself from (confinement, bonds, or the like), as by wriggling out."

Houdini forms his own production company, the Houdini Picture Corporation. Houdini starts writing "The Man from Beyond," which would premiere in 1922.

1922 Vacationing with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his family in Atlantic City, Houdini attends a séance with Lady Doyle, who claims to channel automatic-writing from Houdini's mother. Houdini is not convinced, and the incident marks the beginning of the end of his friendship with the world-famous author and leading proponent of Spiritualism.

1924 In July, Houdini has his first sittings with the celebrated Boston medium Mina Crandon, aka "Margery." Houdini, convinced Margery is a fake, feuds with her and more sympathetic colleagues on the "Scientific American" panel charged with evaluating her gifts. The case receives wide coverage in the press.

1925 In early January Houdini challenges Margery to appear with him at Boston's Symphony Hall. When she declines, Houdini stages a séance to expose her methods. In February, the "Scientific American" panel votes to deny her the prize, tepidly saying, "We have observed no phenomena of which we can assert that they could not have been produced by normal means." In November, however, Houdini is vindicated by an article in "Atlantic Monthly." In it, a Harvard graduate student in psychology discredits Margery by catching her in a clear deception.

Houdini's career-long search for theatrical respectability ends with his own Broadway show at the end of the year. Running two and a half hours, "HOUDINI" is easily the longest show he has ever done. The second and third acts, featuring some of his most famous escapes and an exposé of Spiritualism, respectively, are vintage Houdini. But the hour-long first act, featuring fifteen tricks and illusions, is a real departure for him. As biographer Kenneth Silverman writes, "... after a lifetime in magic, it marked his professional debut as a magician."

1926 In February and May, Houdini testifies before Senate and House subcommittees for a bill aimed at prosecuting anyone "pretending to tell fortunes for reward or compensation."

On August 5th, Houdini outdoes Egyptian fakir Rahman Bey by staying submerged in an airtight bronze coffin for one hour and thirty minutes. Houdini responds to charges that the coffin was rigged by saying, "there is no invention to it, there is no trick, there is no fake; you simply lie down in a coffin and breathe quietly."

Houdini dies in Detroit on Halloween, from complications of appendicitis. Several days earlier, he had been struck in the stomach by a student in his dressing room, then refused to cancel his shows until it was too late. His death triggers mourning and tributes around the world.

Houdini's funeral is held on November 4th at the Elks Clubhouse on West Forty-third Street in New York. As many as two thousand mourners pack the ballroom, and the event is widely covered. According to his instructions, he is buried with his head resting on a packet of letters from his mother.

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Houdini had little formal education, but his self-education was a lifelong pursuit. "My mind," he is often quoted as saying, "is the key that sets me free."

Harry Houdini the world famous magician got married on June 22, 1894. Married to Wilhelma Beatrice. I don't know how old he was but if you figured out when he was born you could get an accurate answer. Sorry but that's all I know!

Bess Fell Off the Empire State Building and Houdini Caught her. It was Love at First Sight.

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A brave man

Harry Houdini was 52 when he died on October 31, 1926 He was born March 24th 1874.

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harry houdini was a magical person