Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 18   Georgi Atanasov, composer   

May 20   Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)   

May 21   American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton.   

May 21   US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed   

May 23   Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies.   

May 24   Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die   

May 24   Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer.   

May 24   Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies   

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

May 25   Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer is born.   

May 27   In this year, 9th Preakness: T Costello aboard Saunterer claims in 2:40.5   

May 27   Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer.   

May 29   Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer.   

Jun 01   Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange.   

Jun 01   Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9000+ people.   

Jun 02   Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens   

Jun 03   Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian   

Jun 04   Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)   

Jun 06   Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61   

Jun 07   In this year, 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer claims in 2:47.   

Jun 08   Prospero Bisquertt, composer   

Jun 12   Juan de Hernandez, composer   

Jun 13   The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.   

Jun 14   Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass.   

Jun 16   Austria-Hungary and Serbia sign military treaty.   

Jun 18   Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader.   

Jun 19   Muhammad Ahmad is recorded as becoming Mahdi of Sudan.   

Jun 24   200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico.   

Jun 29   In this year, Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud   

Jun 30   Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia.   

Jul 01   1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB   

Jul 01   inaugural international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB.   

Jul 01   Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)   

Jul 01   US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens.   

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Jan 01   Carry van bridges: [de haan], dutch author (heleen, eva)   

Jan 01   Vajiravudh: King of thailand   

Jan 04   Wilhelm lehmbruck: German painter/poet/sculptor (seated youth)   

Jan 05   Nikolay andreyevich roslavets: Composer   

Jan 08   Henrik shipstead: American politician    

Jan 09   Giovanni papini: Italy, writer (il diavolo)   

Jan 09   Lascelles abercrombie: English poet/critic (revaluations)   

Jan 09   Edouard beaupré: Horse lifter    

Jan 01   Louis auguste blanqui: French political activist (b. 1805)   

Jan 21   Wilhelm matthias naeff: Swiss federal councilor (b. 1802)   

Jan 25   Konstantin thon: Russian architect (b. 1794)   

Jan 30   Jaak nikolaas lemmens: Flemish composer,   

Feb 02   Aleksej f pisemski: Russian writer (clodhopper),   

Feb 05   Thomas carlyle: Historian/essayist,   

Feb 06   Pieter mijer: Gov-gen of neth in   

Feb 07   Fredrik cygnaeus: Finnish poet/literature critic,