The circumstances surrounding Harry Houdini’s sudden death were as murky as the rivers where he often performed death-defying stunts. Despite a medical explanation, rumors that the escape artist was murdered have persisted for decades.
Eighty-one years after Houdini died on Halloween 1926, his great-nephew wants to exhume the magician’s body to determine if enemies poisoned him [...]

1743 George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” had its premiere, in London.
1775 Patrick Henry called for America’s independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
1792 Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 94 in G Major, also known as the “Surprise Symphony,” was performed publicly for the first time, in London.
1806 Explorers [...]