![]() ![]() ![]() It was published in The New York Times on August 29, 1920, with the caption, “HARRY HOUDINI, HANDCUFF KING, Freeing Himself from a Straight-jacket While Suspended in the Air at the Police Field Day Games at the Gravesend Race Track.” Instead, here’s a scarce photo of the man, upside down as he often was (hence the danger of plummeting), and a little background info to follow. ![]() I suspect that today at least some Houdini and history bloggers will expound on the myths, realities, and ironies of the pioneering showman’s demise, so I won’t offer you more of that. And of all the things that could have killed a daredevil like him-drowning, suffocation, strangulation, plummeting-it was peritonitis that ultimately did him in. That’s exactly what Harry Houdini did 91 years ago today: October 31, 1926, 1:26 p.m., age 52. There’s no enviable day to die, but if you’re a magician, and you have to cash in your chips, anyway, it might as well be on Halloween. ![]()
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