Erik Jan Hanussen, nome d'arte di Herschmann Chaim Steinschneider (Vienna, 2 giugno 1889 – Berlino, 25 marzo 1933), è stato un illusionista austriaco.
Herschmann Chaim Steinschneider era conosciuto con una dozzina di nomi d'arte, ma quello che più d'ogni altro lo rese famoso fu “Erik Jan Hanussen”. Ebreo di origini morave, convertito al protestantesimo, coetaneo di Adolf Hitler (era nato solo quarantatré giorni dopo rispetto al Führer), nonché connazionale e suo astrologo preferito, nel decennio compreso tra il 1920 ed il 1930, nella Germania del periodo della Repubblica di Weimar divenne una celebrità seconda – per fama – solo a quella del suo contemporaneo Harry Houdini.
Predisse con esattezza la data in cui Hitler sarebbe salito al potere, ma di lì a poco venne arrestato dalla Gestapo, torturato ed ucciso (il suo cadavere orribilmente sfigurato), probabilmente a causa della gelosia che alcuni gerarchi nazisti nutrivano nei suoi confronti, in considerazione del rapporto privilegiato che lo legava al dittatore nazista.
Per saperne di più...Il 2 giugno 1889 era una domenica sotto il segno zodiacale del ♊. Era il 152 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era Benjamin Harrison.
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Date: 02 June 1889
There is a diver at Bangor, who, if he had lived a thousand years ago, would have had a wonderful story to tell of water-nixies and the aid they had given him. He was under the water examining on obstruction in front of one of...
Date: 02 June 1889
The competition of distinguished marksmen in the army will take place this year at the Bellevue Rifle Range, near Omaha, Neb., commencing Aug. 27, and will be conducted by Major Guy V. Henry, Ninth Cavalry.
Date: 02 June 1889
Hippolyte Captures Port au Prince and Assumes Presidency; Legitime Abdicates Voluntarily
Date: 02 June 1889
Harry C. Evans of the Johnston Company, which has its works at Johnstown, Penn., and its New-York offices in the Mutual Life Insurance Building, in Nassau-street, lived for many years in Johnstown, and is thoroughly ...
Date: 03 June 1889
Washington Memorial Arch Fund; Exhibition in Aid of
Date: 03 June 1889
Mary Reagan, a laundress, living at 61 Macdougal-street, was accused at the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday by Lena May, six years old, of 62 Sullivan-street, of having stolen a pair of two-dollar earrings from her on the 16th ult.
Date: 02 June 1889
Only three candidates presented themselves yesterday morning at the Board of Education for examination for State scholarships in Cornell University, of which twenty-five are offered annually for competition among scholars of public schools in this State.
Date: 03 June 1889
LONDON, June 3.--The Daily News, discussing the danger of artificial lakes, says: "America, where everything is on a scale of vastness which we cannot experience, seems destined to suffer the calamities of civilization, as it exhibits its triumphs, on the most colossal scale. The sympathy of the whole civilized world will be with the people of Pennsylvania in the saddest.
Date: 02 June 1889
LONG BRANCH, N. J., June 1.--Monmouth County is to have three more newspapers. One will be issued at Manasquan, called the Star, and one at Spring Lake, called the News. W.E. Hoskins, formerly proprietor of the Manasquan Seaside, will edit both papers. Keyport will soon have a new paper, which will be edited by G. Maurer, and will be issued every Friday.
Date: 03 June 1889
LITTLE ROCK Ark., June 2.--Private news from Senter, Ark., says that on the night of May 29 a party of White Caps went to the home ...