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Daily Bread for 3.24.11

Good morning.

It’s a mostly sunny day with a high of about thirty-two degrees in store for the Whitewater today.

In Wisconsin history, the Wisconsin Historical Society reports that Wisconsin resident Harry Houdini was born on this day, in 1874:

1874 – Harry Houdini Born

On this date magician Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, though he later claimed to have been born on April 6, 1874, in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the age of 13 he left Appleton, where his family had emigrated, for New York City, and began his career as an escape artist and magician. [Source: Outagamie County Historical Society].

Google marks the occasion of Houdini’s birth with a doodle and a link to a biography.

 

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