● Houdini’s father had died of cancer in 1892.
● Houdini’s childhood was spent in poverty.
●Houdini married Bess Rahner.
●Houdini was 5’5” with dark wavy hair dark gray
eyes and a high pitched voice.
●Houdini was poorly educated but very athletic and
highly motivated to succeed.
●Houdini’s brother Leopold was New York's first
x-ray specialist.
●Houdini had one magic success in his early years
and that was the nedde trick.
●Houdini got the idea to escape places when he saw a
straitjacket for the first time.
●Houdini’s most famous acts where the illusions the
water torture cell, the milk can escape, and the
buried alive illusions.
●Houdini and his wife experienced stomach pain on
their U.S tour of 1926 when they were in canada
J.Gordon Whitehead punched houdini who happened
to rupture his appendix causing his death.
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