Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   In the year 1881 frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC   

May 17   Revised version of New Testament in the year 1881.   

May 18   In the year 1881 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 in the year 1881.   

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

May 24   Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die in the year 1881.   

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

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

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 in the year 1881.   

May 27   Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer on this day in history.   

May 29   On this day in history frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   On this day in history bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

Jun 01   In the year 1881 cholera in Egypt   

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

Jun 02   In the year 1881 haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens   

Jun 03   On this day in history japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian   

Jun 04   Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer) in the year 1881.   

Jun 06   Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.   

Jun 07   In the year 1881 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47   

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

Jun 12   Juan de Hernandez, composer in the year 1881.   

Jun 13   The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack in the year 1881.   

Jun 14   Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass) in the year 1881.   

Jun 14   On this day in history player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr, Cambridge, Mass   

Jun 16   On this day in history austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty   

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

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

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

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

Jun 30   Henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia in the year 1881.   

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

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)   

Jan 04   On this day in history 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   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   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   On this day in history death of wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)   

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   Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85   

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

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