Page 5: Historical Events In 1881

May 17   On this day in history frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Washington DC   

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

May 18   Georgi Atanasov, composer on this day in history.   

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

May 21   American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton on this day in history.   

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   Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die on this day in history.   

May 24   On this day in history mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer   

May 24   On this day in history samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies   

May 24   The Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers on this day in history.   

May 25   On this day in history the birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer   

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

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

May 29   In the year 1881 frederik Septimus Kelly, composer   

Jun 01   In the year 1881 bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange   

Jun 01   Cholera in Egypt in the year 1881.   

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

Jun 02   In the year 1881 haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens   

Jun 03   Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian on this day in history.   

Jun 04   In the year 1881 clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer)   

Jun 06   In the year 1881 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 in the year 1881.   

Jun 12   In the year 1881 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 in the year 1881.   

Jun 16   Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty in the year 1881.   

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 on this day in history.   

Jun 29   Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud in the year 1881.   

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   Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth)   

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 in the year 1881.   

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   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died in the year 1881.   

Jan 21   In the year 1881 death of wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1802)   

Jan 25   On this day in history death of konstantin Thon, Russian architect (b. 1794)   

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

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 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