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Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was born on 18th March 1874 in Budapest, Hungary and was known as Ehrich Weisz in his childhood. He made his first appearance on stage when he was nine years old and performed a trapeze act. By the age of twenty he had been performing small acts throughout New York. He is famous for his sensational escape acts. His best act by far was ‘the Chinese water cell’. In a pre- television era, he gained worldwide acclaim by challenging any jail in each town he visited to hold him and then escaping from all of them. He famously proclaimed that there were no superficial or supernatural powers involved in his feats.
