Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   In this year, 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo claims in 2:40   

May 17   Revised version of New Testament.   

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   Cholera in Egypt.   

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 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   

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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,