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   Georgi Atanasov, composer in the year 1881.   

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

May 21   On this day in history american Red Cross founded by Clara Barton   

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

May 23   Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies on this day in history.   

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   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   Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer in the year 1881.   

May 29   In the year 1881 frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange in the year 1881.   

Jun 01   On this day in history cholera in Egypt   

Jun 01   Fifth cholera pandemic in India, Germany killing 9,000+ people in the year 1881.   

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

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

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

Jun 06   On this day in history henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61   

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

Jun 08   Prospero Bisquertt, composer on this day in history.   

Jun 12   In the year 1881 juan de Hernandez, composer   

Jun 13   In the year 1881 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   In the year 1881 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   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   Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud on this day in history.   

Jun 30   Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 01   Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925) was born in the year 1881.   

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

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

Jan 08   Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 09   In the year 1881 birth of giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)   

Jan 09   Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations) was born on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 21   In the year 1881 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   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   In the year 1881 thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85   

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

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