Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

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

May 17   In the year 1881 revised version of New Testament   

May 18   On this day in history georgi Atanasov, composer   

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

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

May 24   In the year 1881 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 on this day in history.   

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

May 25   In the year 1881 the birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer   

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

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

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

Jun 01   Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange on this day in history.   

Jun 01   Cholera in Egypt in the year 1881.   

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

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

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

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   The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack in the year 1881.   

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 in the year 1881.   

Jun 19   On this day in history muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan   

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

Jun 29   On this day in history pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud   

Jun 30   On this day in history 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   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)   

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)   

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

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

Jan 01   On this day in history 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   Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794) died on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58 in the year 1881.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 07   Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 on this day in history.