As well as being a master escape artist and illusionist, Harry Houdini was also a pilot. On March 18, 1910, he made the first controlled powered flight of an airplane in Australia. He flew a Voison biplane at Digger's Rest in Victoria, Australia. Houdini was also the first to have recorded a flight on film in Australia, flying over Sydney.
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Harry Houdini changed what he liked throughout his lifetime. He was a magician, an escape artist, a medium, and a pilot. Harry also wrote some books, directed some movies, and had lots of birds in their house.
Harry Houdini went by The Great Houdini.
No. Harry Houdini was Jewish.
No, Harry Houdini is not single.
He was the world's greatest magician ( at the time) and was an pilot that was the first person to fly in Australia.