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MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_1
- 1849 - Robert-Houdin's Trapeze Automaton makes its first performance in Paris.
- 1888 - Charles T. Jordan was born in Berkeley, California.
- 1926 - Ron Wilson, The Uncanny Scott was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_2
- 1881 - Rev. P. H. Case is born.
- 1902 - Dell O'Dell was born Dell Newton in Kansas.
- 1966 - Edward Magner passes away.
- 1973 - The Magician TV Show premiered on NBC starring Bill Bixby.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_3
- 1883 - Harry August Jansen was born in Denmark. He would later become known as Dante.
- 1902 - Bob Blau is born.
- 1942 - Max Malini dies in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 1952 - T. J. Crawford passes away.
- 1954 - Earl Rybolt passes away.
- 1969 - Milbourne Christopher was in the Mike Douglas Show.
- 1980 - The movie "Terror Train" starring David Copperfield was released.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_4
- 1847 - D'Alvini is born.
- 1906 - Carter the Great started a tour in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- 1970 - Illustrator Nelson C. Hahne passes away.
- 1978 - David Copperfield was a guest on the Mike Douglas Show.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_5
- 1801 - Ludwig Leopold Doebler is born.
- 1969 - Fantasio appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show
- 1903 - Johnny Platt was born in Chicago.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_6
- 1909 - Arnold Crowther is born.
- 1913 - Duke Stern is born.
- 1915 - Phil Smith is born.
- 1935 - Howard Thurston has stroke in Charleston, West Virginia after his fourth show at Kearse Theater.
- 1945 - Charles Leedy passes away.
- 1964 - FISM in Barcelona starts.
- 1970 - Amazing Chang passes away.
- 1983 - Tannen's 21st Jubilee starts.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_7
- 1892 - Werner F. Dornfield, known as "Dorny", was born.
- 1903 - Buatier de Kolta passes away in America.
- 1941 - Dante and his Magic Revue opened at the Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles.
- 1946 - Blackstone Show is at Grand Theatre, Ontario, Canada
- 1976 - The Second Annual Mid-America Conclave starts at Broasdview Hotel, Wichita with Jay Marshall and Slydini.
- 1995 - The Magic Castle has its semi-annual Magic Swap Meet in Hollywood.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_8
- 1876 - Henry Slade is credited in the spiritualist publication, THE MEDIUM AND DAYBREAK with discovering the phenomenon of spirit Slate Writing.
- 1944 - Frederick Culpitt, a British performer and stage manager of the Egyption Hall passes away.
- 1961 - Bob Lewis performs on the Ed Sullivan Show
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_9
- 1599 - Reginald Scot died.
- 1861 - Agosta-Meynier, founder of the first magical society in France is born.
- 1895 - Al Flosso, The Coney Island Fakir, was born Albert Levinson in New York City.
- 1956 - The Amazing Dunninger TV show completes its run on ABC.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_10
- 1895 - Al Flosso was born.
- 1913 - Ed Marlo was born Edward Malkowski in Chicago.
- 1965 - Louis Histed, creator of the Square Circle, passed away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_11
- 1886 - Alexander Herrmann, assisted by Adelaide Herrmann appears at the National Theatre (Washington, D.C.).
- 1909 - Wilfred Tyler is born.
- 1917 - Thomas W. Yost died.
- 1998 - Borra, international pickpocket and magician, passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_12
- 1878 - Joseph Vanek, most known for his illusion of taking the head off an assistant and passing the decapitated head among the audience, gave his farewell performance in Budapest.
- 1898 - Charles Carrer was born in Zurich, Switzerland would later marry Dell O'Dell.
- 1950 - William H. Coffrin, better known as Si Stebbins dies.
- 1989 - Virgil dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_13
- 1894 - Carl Fleming (1894-1940) was born Caryl Stacy Fleming in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- 1919 - The Grim Game, a silent film starring Harry Houdini, is released.
- 1939 - Nate Leipzig (1873-1939), one of the early pioneers of performing simple straight forward magic, passes away.
- 1941 - David Devant (1868-1941), an English magician, shadowgraphist and film exhibitor, passes away.
- 1947 - Allan Ackerman is born.
- 1974 - Ed Sullivan(1901-1974), an American entertainment writer and television host, passes away at the age of 73.
- 1977 - Harold Sterling (1899-1977) dies in New Port Richey, Florida.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_14
- 1829 - St. Roman (1829-1918) , musician and magician, is born in Austria-Hungary.
- 1932 - Charles Roltare (1872-1932), first editor of the S.A.M.'s magazine, passes away.
- 1952 - Harry Anderson, an Emmy Award-nominated American actor and magician, is born.
- 1978 - Maurice Glazer (1913-1978), originator of Think-A-Drink, passes away.
- 2005 - Second Annual Asian Magicians Association Convention begins at Bangkok.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_15
- 1903 - Gene Gordon, magic dealer and founding member of the IBM, was born.
- 1934 - Ted Annemann publishes the first issue of The Jinx.
- 1966 - Lord Amwell, born Frederick Montague, dies.
- 1989 - Sid Lorraine dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_16
- 1865 - The Sphinx Illusion, invented by Thomas Tobin was presented for the first time at Colonel Stodare's 200th appearance at the Egyptian Hall.
- 1885 - Dorian, The Manx Magician, is born.
- 1899 - Peter Godfrey, magician, actor and film director, is born.
- 1968 - E. Brian MacCarthy, author of Modern Sleights, passes away.
- 2002 - Harvey Award was presented Lee Grabel.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_17
- 1813 - Alfred Sylvester, known as the Fakir of Oolu is born.
- 1831 - Hugh Washington Simmons, known as Dr. Lynn is born.
- 1880 - Hereward Carrington, investigator of psychic phenomena, is born.
- 1896 - Stephen de Soboll, known as Dr. Z is born.
- 1917 - Houdini persuades Kellar to come to New York to star in a benefit sponsored by the Society of American Magicians for American casualties of the war. Kellar is carried off the stage by Houdini and other members to the orchestra playing Auld Lang Syne, The six thousand members of the audience stand and sang along.
- 1997 - Larry Jennings, known for his close-up card techniques, dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_18
- 1876 - Carlo Rossetti is born in Turin, Italy.
- 1890 - Jesse Mueller is born in San Francisco, USA.
- 1942 - Juan Tamariz is born in Madrid, Spain.
- 1952 - First Convention of the Australian Society of Magicians.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_19
- 1930 - Servais Le Roy was hit by a car walking across the streets in New York City
- 2005 - Ormond McGill, the "Dean of American Hypnotists", dies.
- 2003 - David Blaine concluded his "Above the Below" stunt in which he lived for 44 days in hanging clear plastic box.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_20
- 1963 - S. S. Adams passes away.
- 1995 - Robert Lund, founder the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan, dies.
- 2006 - The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan, was relaesed.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_21
- 1914 - Popular American mathematics, magician and science writer Martin Gardner born.
- 1977 - The Great Tomsoni appeared on the Mike Douglas Show.
- 2005 - To honor the 100th anniversary of The Magic Circle, The Magic Castle featured British performers in all of its theaters that week.
- 2020 - Ken Klosterman, Salon De Magie proprietor, died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_22
- 1866 - Colonel Stodare passes away.
- 1926 - Harry Houdini was punched in the mid-section before he could brace himself. He dies a week later.
- 1942 - Edward Saint passes away.
- 2022 - André Kole died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_23
- 1910 - Article in The New York Times regarding the book now classic Magicians' Tricks, How They Are Done by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate.
- 1925 - Johnny Carson, who started out as a magician and continued to perform throughout his life was instrumental in putting magicians on television, was born.
- 2008 - Nick Trost, prolific author of booklets and creator of packet card tricks, passes away.
- 2010 - Csuri Notes are being auctionned off as part of the Herb Zarrow collection.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_24
- 1892 - L. Vosburgh Lyons, a close friend of Theodore Annemann, was born.
- 1928 - Gene Maze, a highly skilled and creative magician who specialized in card magic, was born.
- 1951 - Al Baker, known as an outstanding M.C., author, and inventor, dies.
- 2008 - Ted Lesley, using the stage name of Friedrich Karl Helzel, passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_25
- 1884 - Silent Mora was born Louis McCord in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
- 1995 - David Lederman, one of the earliest proponents and experts in micromagic, passes away.
- 2011 - John Daniels died.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_26
- 1892 - Theo Dore was born.
- 1962 - Sam Berland did his magic lecture at the Hollywood Hotel Knickerbocker, $3 per person.
- 1970 - Ricky Jay appears on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- 1996 - Carlyle dies.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_27
- 1890 - Charles Harrison, also known as Rajah Khan, is born.
- 1907 - Ludwig Hanemann, known as Punx, was born in Germany.
- 1909 - Marian Chavez was born.
- 1979 - James McKnight, author of Card Magic Supreme, passes away.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_28
- 1846 - Otto Maurer, founder of the New York Magical Co., was born.
- 1851 - John Randall Brown, one of the first mentalist to perform a Muscle Reading act, was born.
- 1883 - The first appearance of Harry Houdini before an audience as Ehrich, The Prince of the Air.
- 1906 - Archie Tear, one of the first magicians to be televised (1932) was born.
- 1924 - Bascom Jones, publisher of Magick, was born in San Diego, California.
- 1967 - Tom Stone, who has a column titled "LodeStones" in Genii, was born.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_29
- 1932 - Zamloch died.
- 1950 - Harry Usher died.
- 2001 - Lance Burton performs an upside-down straitjacket escape in Las Vegas as part of the U.S. Postal Service's unveiling of the new Harry Houdini stamp, which would be officially issued in July 2002 at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Society of American Magicians in New York City.
- 2006 - Kristen Johnson received the Master Award at the 4th Annual International Escape Convention.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_30
- 1891 - Zina Bennett was born.
- 1903 - Conrad Bosschieter, known as Connie Bush, was born.
- 1923 - Topper Martyn, a popular comedy magicican was born Victor Martyn in England.
- 1948 - Fifteen students of magic and the occult failed to establish contact with the spirit of the late Harry Houdini at a seance held in the Greenwich Village apartment of Conjurors' Editor Walter B. Gibson.
- 1981 - Maurice Fogel, a professional magician and mentalist known own as "The Amazing Fogel" dies.
- 2004 - Sidney Hollis Radner auctionned his collection of Houdini's items in Las Vegas.
MagicPedia:Selected_anniversaries/October_31
- 1861 - Professor Herwinn, inventor of the Thumb Tip, was born William Humpage in Birmingham.
- 1901 - Russell Swann, a successfull comedy magician, was born William Russell Swann in Washington D. C., the first of 10 brothers.
- 1926 - Harry Houdini dies of peritonitis secondary to a ruptured appendix.
- 1936 - Lou Lancaster, who worked with Mark Wilson, is born.
- 1958 - National Magic Day. Phil Graham (Mr. Fantastic, The Psychadelic Prestidigitator) of S.A.M. Assembly 22 was appointed chairman for this year's activities by S.A.M. Pres. Hugh Riley.
