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   Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general) on this day in history.   

May 21   In the year 1881 american Red Cross founded by Clara Barton   

May 21   US Nation Lawn Tennis Association is formed in the year 1881.   

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

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

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

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   The birth of Bela Bartok, Hungarian composer in the year 1881.   

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

May 27   Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer in the year 1881.   

May 29   Frederik Septimus Kelly, composer on this day in history.   

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

Jun 01   In the year 1881 cholera in Egypt   

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

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

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

Jun 04   On this day in history 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 in the year 1881.   

Jun 08   On this day in history prospero Bisquertt, composer   

Jun 12   On this day in history juan de Hernandez, composer   

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   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   In the year 1881 eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader   

Jun 19   Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan on this day in history.   

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

Jun 29   In the year 1881 pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Diuturnum illud   

Jun 30   In the year 1881 henry Highland Garnet, named minister to Liberia   

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Jan 01   Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) was born on this day in history.   

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   Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 09   In the year 1881 birth of edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)   

Jan 01   Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805) died on this day in history.   

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   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 07   Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73 in the year 1881.