THE WEEK IN HOUDINI HISTORY
Nov. 15, 1916: Suspended straitjacket escape from the Pickering Building in Cincinnati.
Nov. 16, 1975: Paramount's Houdini airs on KCOP in Los Angeles. [more]
Nov. 17, 1907: Houdini dives shackled into Mississippi River from gang plank of the Steamer "J.S."
Nov. 18, 1895: The Houdinis appear with the American Gaiety Girls at Webster Hall in Gloucester, MA .
Nov. 19, 1914: Stunt in which Houdini would be tied to a tree in Boston Common cancelled due to weather.
Nov. 20, 1906: Escapes from a Detroit jail in less than 2 minutes.
Nov. 21, 1925: Houdini gives inscribed copy of A Magician Among the Spirits to Thomas Edison.
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