Six years after the Wright Brothers made the world’s first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered aircraft in the US, Harry Houdini—yes, that Houdini, the famous Hungarian-American escape artist and stunt performer—set a similarly impressive record in the small town of Diggers Rest, Victoria.
Diggers Rest is now considered an outer Melbourne suburb, at about
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I enjoyed reading about Lawrence Hargrave but his story is incredibly sad.