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1881 Calendar

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•  March 13, 1881 – Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
•  March 27, 1881 – Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
•  May 12, 1881 – In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
•  July 1, 1881 – The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
•  July 2, 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
•  July 4, 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
•  July 14, 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
•  July 23, 1881 – The Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
•  September 20, 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.
•  October 26, 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.

•  January 8, 1881 – Henrik Shipstead, American politician (d. 1960)
•  February 2, 1881 – Orval Overall, American baseball player (d. 1947)
•  February 16, 1881 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
•  March 4, 1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
•  May 14, 1881 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
•  May 30, 1881 – Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
•  August 12, 1881 – Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (d. 1959)
•  September 15, 1881 – Ettore Bugatti, Italian automobile engineer and designer (d. 1947)
•  October 11, 1881 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian legal theorist (d. 1973)
•  December 24, 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)