As Google celebrates Houdini's 137th birthday, we explain why the great escapologist remains an enduring symbol of wonderHappy birthday, Harry Houdini: you'd have been 137 today (if you hadn't died of a ruptured appendix at 52). But you are not forgotten. Indeed, you're front page on Google and the Twitterocracy are tweeting their greetings even now. The question that inevitably arises is simply: why? Was he more ast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:45AM on March 24, 2011