THE WEEK IN HOUDINI HISTORY
July 25, 1916: Overboard Box escape off Parkway Baths in Brighton Beach. [story]
July 26, 1909: Opens at Barrasford’s Hippodrome in Sheffield.
July 27, 1919: Visits Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton on set of Back Stage at the Comique studio in Edendale. [story]
July 28, 1915: Overboard Box escape from the Garden Pier in Atlantic City.
July 29, 1909: The Houdinis dog Charlie dies. [more]
July 30, 1913: Cecelia Weiss is buried in Machpelah Cemetery.
July 31, 1902: First challenge packing crate escape in Essen Ruhr, Germany. [more]
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