Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC on this day in history.   

May 17   Revised version of New Testament on this day in history.   

May 18   Georgi Atanasov, composer in the year 1881.   

May 20   On this day in history wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)   

May 21   American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton in the year 1881.   

May 21   On this day in history uS Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed   

May 23   In the year 1881 kit Carson, frontiersman, dies   

May 24   On this day in history canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die   

May 24   Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer on this day in history.   

May 24   Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies in the year 1881.   

May 24   The Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers in the year 1881.   

May 25   On this day in history the birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer   

May 27   On this day in history 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5   

May 27   On this day in history rudolf Pannwitz, German writer   

May 29   On this day in history frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   On this day in history bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

Jun 01   On this day in history cholera in Egypt   

Jun 01   Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people on this day in history.   

Jun 02   Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens in the year 1881.   

Jun 03   On this day in history japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian   

Jun 04   Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer) in the year 1881.   

Jun 06   Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 in the year 1881.   

Jun 07   In the year 1881 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47   

Jun 08   On this day in history prospero Bisquertt, composer   

Jun 12   On this day in history juan de Hernandez, composer   

Jun 13   In the year 1881 the USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.   

Jun 14   On this day in history player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)   

Jun 14   Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass on this day in history.   

Jun 16   In the year 1881 austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty   

Jun 18   Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader on this day in history.   

Jun 19   In the year 1881 muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan   

Jun 24   200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico in the year 1881.   

Jun 29   Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud in the year 1881.   

Jun 30   Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia in the year 1881.   

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Jan 01   Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 08   On this day in history birth of henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)   

Jan 09   Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 09   Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)   

Jan 01   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died in the year 1881.   

Jan 21   On this day in history death of wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)   

Jan 25   In the year 1881 death of konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)   

Jan 30   On this day in history jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58   

Feb 02   Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 in the year 1881.   

Feb 06   Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   In the year 1881 fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73