Today in History for February 1881

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

1st - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
5th - Phoenix, Az incorporates
7th - Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
10th - Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
13th - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
19th - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
24th - De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal
24th - China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
26th - -27] Natal: British troops under gen-major Colley occupy Majuba Hill
26th - SS Ceylon begins 1st round-the-world cruise from Liverpool
27th - Battle at Amajuba, S Afr: Boers vs Brit army under Gen Colley

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 20 of 20

1st - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
2nd - Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
4th - Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
4th - Fernand Léger, French painter (d. 1955)
5th - Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
6th - Karl Weigl, composer
13th - Eleanor Farjeon, English writer (Martin Pippin)
14th - Otto Selz, German psychologist
14th - William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
16th - Maurits H E Uyldert, Dutch poet/writer (Youth of a Poet)
19th - Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle)
19th - Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
19th - Paul Zech, writer
20th - Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
21st - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
22nd - Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
23rd - Titus [Anno S] Brandsma, Dutch philosopher
25th - William Foster, Mass, Communist Pres candidate (1924,28,32)
27th - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician
27th - Sveinn Bjornsson, 1st president of Iceland (1944-52)/poet (Figur ild)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 7 of 7

2nd - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
5th - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85
6th - Pieter Mijer, Gov-Gen of Neth Indies (1866-72), dies at 68
7th - Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
9th - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), dies at 59
14th - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
27th - George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46