Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel ... Houdini publishes his controversial book, "The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin." Houdini makes the first "real" flight on the continent ...

Perhaps it was this victory that led the "König der Handschellen" to respond boldly when a Cologne newspaper published an article the following year entitled "The Unmasking of Houdini." ...