During his life, legendary escape artist and magician Harry Houdini shocked crowds with his stunts and illusions. Houdini, born Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary on March 24, 1874, moved to the U.S ...

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 ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

On March 18, 1910, Harry Houdini made three flights in his Voisin, the third lasting about three and a half minutes. NASM 2001-14087 He wasn’t the first magician to attempt flight. As early as ...

A young Harry Houdini, the great escapist of history (Wikipedia: Library of Congress of the United States) It is that Houdin - whom the general public has forgotten - changed the paradigm of the ...

Fearing for his life, Harry Houdini leaves secret codes with his loved ones that he promises to use in any post-mortem messaging. In 1926, Houdini’s death shocks the world, but the news that ...

Erik Weisz, better known professionally as the great escapologist, illusionist and stunt performer Harry Houdini, had many links with Ireland. He first came to public attention in vaudeville in ...