When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - It was just after Thanksgiving, and Grand Rapids locals were preparing to converge on Nov. 29, 1916, to watch escape artist Harry Houdini attempt to free himself while dangling from ...

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Master escape artist Harry Houdini, most famous for his death-defying escapes suspended upside down in a straitjacket or submerged in a tank of water, died on Halloween 96 years ago from appendicitis.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harry Houdini performing an escape at the Vancouver Sun building on March 1, 1923. W.J. Moore Vancouver Public Library 70208 ...

When the great escape artist Harry Houdini announced plans to perform at the Orpheum Theatre in 1923, The Vancouver Sun issued a challenge to him: perform a death-defying escape in public outside the ...