THE WEEK IN HOUDINI HISTORY
March 28, 1916: Police halt Houdini's suspended straitjacket escape in Times Square. [story]
March 29, 2015: TCM's restoration of The Grim Game premiers in Hollywood. [story]
March 30, 1914: Escapes from a straitjacket atop a railway boxcar in Cleveland. [story]
March 31, 1874: Circumcised by I.L. Schill.
April 1, 1913: Jumps handcuffed from a buttress of the Swing Bridge into the River Tyne in Newcastle, UK.
April 2, 1922: The Man From Beyond premieres at the Times Square Theater in New York.
April 3, 1891: Leaves job at H. Richter’s Sons in New York. [more]
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