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Magicpedia:Selected anniversaries/August 5

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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.