Page 9: Historical Events In 1881

Oct 26   Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az in the year 1881.   

Oct 29   Judge (U.S. magazine) first published in the year 1881.   

Oct 30   Lena Christ, writer on this day in history.   

Oct 31   On this day in history metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams)   

Nov 01   In the year 1881 jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris), dies at 22   

Nov 02   In the year 1881 dutch New-Malthusiaanse Union forms   

Nov 04   On this day in history gena Branscombe, composer   

Nov 05   In the year 1881 french government-Ferry resigns   

Nov 09   In the year 1881 edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the first oil well.   

Nov 14   Charles J Guiteau went on trial for Pres Garfield's assassination in the year 1881.   

Nov 14   Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination on this day in history.   

Nov 15   American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh) on this day in history.   

Nov 15   On this day in history franklin P Adams, Chicago Ill, columnist (Information Please)   

Nov 17   Thomas Fermor-Hesketh, English 1st baron of Hesketh Dutch/MP in the year 1881.   

Nov 18   In the year 1881 percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)   

Nov 19   In the year 1881 a meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.   

Nov 25   John XXIII, [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63) on this day in history.   

Nov 28   Stefan Zweig, Vienna Austria, poet/essayist/dramatist (Beware of Pity) in the year 1881.   

Dec 03   Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa on this day in history.   

Dec 04   Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot) on this day in history.   

Dec 04   The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published in the year 1881.   

Dec 05   In the year 1881 47th Congress (1881-83) convenes   

Dec 07   On this day in history julius FA Bahnsen, Ger philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies at 51   

Dec 08   Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems) on this day in history.   

Dec 08   In the year 1881 vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850   

Dec 13   In the year 1881 august Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43   

Dec 15   On this day in history james Schneider, NY, actor (Keystone Kops)   

Dec 17   Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer (great S Afr all-rounder early 20th cent) in the year 1881.   

Dec 17   Lewis H Morgan, US ethnologist (Iroquois-indians), dies at 62 on this day in history.   

Dec 19   Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels) on this day in history.   

Dec 19   On this day in history the opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)   

Dec 20   In the year 1881 branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)   

Dec 22   On this day in history enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician   

Dec 24   In the year 1881 bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer   

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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   Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) was born in the year 1881.   

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

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   In the year 1881 death of louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (b. 1805)   

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   Jaak Nikolaas Lemmens, Flemish composer, dies at 58 on this day in history.   

Feb 02   Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85 on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1881.