Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   On this day in history frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC   

May 17   On this day in history revised version of New Testament   

May 18   On this day in history georgi Atanasov, composer   

May 20   Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general) in the year 1881.   

May 21   American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton on this day in history.   

May 21   In the year 1881 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 in the year 1881.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

May 27   9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:40.5 in the year 1881.   

May 27   Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer in the year 1881.   

May 29   In the year 1881 frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   In the year 1881 bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

Jun 01   Cholera in Egypt on this day in history.   

Jun 01   On this day in history fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people   

Jun 02   Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens on this day in history.   

Jun 03   Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian on this day in history.   

Jun 04   In the year 1881 clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)   

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   Juan de Hernandez, composer on this day in history.   

Jun 13   On this day in history 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   On this day in history player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass   

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

Jun 18   On this day in history eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader   

Jun 19   Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan in the year 1881.   

Jun 24   200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico on this day in history.   

Jun 29   Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud on this day in history.   

Jun 30   In the year 1881 henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia   

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

Jan 01   In the year 1881 birth of vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)   

Jan 04   In the year 1881 birth of wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)   

Jan 05   In the year 1881 birth of nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer   

Jan 08   Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) was born in the year 1881.   

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

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations)   

Jan 09   In the year 1881 birth of edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)   

Jan 01   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died on this day in history.   

Jan 21   Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802) died on this day in history.   

Jan 25   On this day in history death of konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)   

Jan 30   In the year 1881 jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58   

Feb 02   In the year 1881 aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59   

Feb 05   Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68 in the year 1881.   

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