Open to the public, the free presentation is appropriate for those 10 and older. While Houdini wasn’t born in Appleton, he referred to it as his hometown. The family came to America because of a job opportunity for Houdini’s father, Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss, who became Appleton’s first rabbi. Recently discovered ship’s logs indicate that the Weiss family moved to Appleton when Houdini was a toddler.

He first attracted notice in vaudeville in the US and then as “Harry Handcuff Houdini” on a tour of Europe, where he challenged police forces to keep him locked up. Houdini, born Erik Weisz in 1874 in Budapest, was an illusionist and stunt performer noted for his escape acts. on April 9 at the Plymouth Arts Center, 520 East Mill St., Plymouth, when Castle Museum curator Emily Rock discusses Harry Houdini and his legacy in Wisconsin Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.Second Saturdays Journeys into Local History, sponsored by the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, will continue its 2015-2016 season from 9:30-11:30 a.m.

Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1½ hrs before escaping Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam Harry Houdini performs at Rembrandt theater, Amsterdam Historical Events in the Life of Harry Houdini He was married to Bess Houdini from 1894 until his death in 1926. His parents were German Jews named Cecelia Weisz Steiner and Mayer Samuel Weisz. In his youth, he took a job as a trapeze artist under the name Ehrich, the Prince of the Air, and was a successful cross-country runner. Gordon Whitehead tested Houdini's immortality by striking him in the gut several times, which ruptured his appendix and killed him.David Copperfield purchased the entirety of Mulholland's Houdini holdings from Mulholland's estate in 1970. Iconic magician and escape artist whose most difficult stunt entailed escaping from handcuffs that took a locksmith five years to build.A university student and a boxer named J.

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