Max Auzinger was born on this day in 1839; he accidentally discovered the principle of Black Art as he was working on a play.
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Harry Kellar was born on this day in 1849. He became America’s greatest magician of his time.
On this day in 1982, Lance Burton won the Grand Prix at FISM in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first American and the youngest contestant to win.
Religious Racketeers (later retitled The Mystic Circle Murders), a film featuring Beatrice Houdini in a supporting role, premiered on this day in 1938.
A reprint of the 2002 original with two minor additions. The original version was well regarded. Twenty years later, it still contains the definitive handing for the Half-Pass, and thoughtful variations of the Le Paul Bluff Pass and the One-Handed Pop Over.
On this day in 1922, Harry and Bess Houdini celebrated their anniversary by hosting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his wife, Lady Doyle, at a Broadway performance.
Robert Maroney Willard, who performed as the second Willard the Wizard, died by suicide in 1914.
On this day in 1946, John Petrie of the Petrie-Lewis Company filed a patent for his mechanical blooming rose bush.
David Frederick Wingfield Verner was born in 1894 in Ottawa, Ontario. We all knew him as Dai Vernon, the insightful, innovative, and influential magician.
German mentalist Erik Jan Hanussen was born in 1889. He died pursuing a dangerous game, exploiting superstition within the Nazi regime.
Herbert Brooks opened at Hammerstein’s Theater in New York City on this date in 1905. He was a sensation in vaudeville with his card tricks and his trunk escape.