Houdini Dies: The Master of Escape Leaves His Mark
Harry Houdini collapses from a ruptured appendix that triggers fatal gangrene and peritonitis, ending the life of the man who mastered escape before death could claim him. His sudden passing leaves a void in the world of performance art and fuels decades of speculation about whether he truly died or staged his own exit.
October 31, 1926
100 years ago
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