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Magicpedia:Selected anniversaries/August

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  • 1900 - Paul Le Paul was born Paul Shields Braden in Olney, Illinois.
  • 1921 - Carl Hertz was summoned to the British House of Commons to prove that his act did not harm the birds.
  • 1998 - Shari Lewis died.

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  • 1862 - W.D. Le Roy was born in LaSalle, Illinois.
  • 1911 - John Calvert was born.
  • 1926 - Harry Houdini performed his last and greatest feat by emerging from a coffin submerged in a water tank after spending 91 minutes inside.
  • 1972 - Silent Mora, who made most of his own apparatus, died.

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  • 1829 - George Heubeck, who became one of Hofzinser's favorite pupils, was born in Vienna.
  • 1924 - Ed Voorhees, who became a magic shop owner in the Philadelphia area, was born.
  • 1952 - The annual convention of The Texas Association of Magicians starts at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth.
  • 2006 - Igor Kio, a Russian illusionist with the Russian Circus Association, dies.

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