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 on this day in history.   

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

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   Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies in the year 1881.   

May 24   On this day in history the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London, Ontario, killing 200 passengers   

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   In the year 1881 rudolf Pannwitz, German writer   

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

Jun 01   Bell Phone opens 1st Dutch telephone exchange on this day in history.   

Jun 01   On this day in history cholera in Egypt   

Jun 01   On this day in history 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   Clara Blandick, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Romance, Tom Sawyer) in the year 1881.   

Jun 06   Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61 in the year 1881.   

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

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

Jun 12   On this day in history 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) 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   On this day in history eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader   

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

Jun 30   On this day in history 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   On this day in history birth of vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)   

Jan 04   Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer   

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

Jan 09   On this day in history birth of giovanni Papini, Italy, writer (Il Diavolo)   

Jan 09   Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet/critic (Revaluations) was born in the year 1881.   

Jan 09   Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904) was born in the year 1881.   

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

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

Feb 02   On this day in history aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59   

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.