THE WEEK IN HOUDINI HISTORY
June 6, 1882: Rabbi Weiss and family become U.S. citizens.
June 7, 1911: Challenged by Coppers in Shepherd's Bush to escape from a Rum Punch Hickory Barrel.
June 8, 1914: Performs the Grand Magical Revue in Nottingham. [more]
June 9, 1913: Buys De Kolta's Expanding Die from Leah Goldston.
June 10, 1908: Jumps manacled from the Portland Bridge in Portland, Maine.
June 11, 1923: Suspended straitjacket escape from Park Avenue exhibit pavilion at Silver Jubilee Exposition in New York.
June 12, 1945: Theo Hardeen dies at Doctors Hospital in Manhattan at age 69. [story]
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