Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC in the year 1881.   

May 17   In the year 1881 revised version of New Testament   

May 18   In the year 1881 georgi Atanasov, composer   

May 20   In the year 1881 wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)   

May 21   In the year 1881 american Red Cross founded by Clara Barton   

May 21   US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed on this day in history.   

May 23   On this day in history kit Carson, frontiersman, dies   

May 24   In the year 1881 canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die   

May 24   In the year 1881 mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer   

May 24   Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies on this day in history.   

May 24   On this day in history the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers   

May 25   The birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer in the year 1881.   

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

May 27   In the year 1881 rudolf Pannwitz, German writer   

May 29   Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer in the year 1881.   

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   In the year 1881 fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people   

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

Jun 03   In the year 1881 japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian   

Jun 04   On this day in history clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)   

Jun 06   In the year 1881 henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61   

Jun 07   On this day in history 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47   

Jun 08   In the year 1881 prospero Bisquertt, composer   

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

Jun 13   On this day in history the USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.   

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

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

Jun 16   Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty on this day in history.   

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

Jun 19   Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan on this day in history.   

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

Jun 29   In the year 1881 pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud   

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

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva)   

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

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

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

Jan 08   In the year 1881 birth of henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)   

Jan 09   Giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 09   Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   In the year 1881 death of louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)   

Jan 21   Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802) died in the year 1881.   

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

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

Feb 02   Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 in the year 1881.   

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

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

Feb 07   On this day in history fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73