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Governor of Alabama: Rufus W. Cobb (); Governor of Arkansas: William Read Miller (until January 11), Thomas James Churchill (starting January 11); Governor of California: George Clement Perkins ()
From top left, clockwise: A famous gunfight erupts at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881; a long-distance passenger train called the Orient Express begins running between Paris and Constantinople in 1883; U.S. Congress bans Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for ten years, starting in 1882; South Fork Dam fails after heavy rainfall and floods the town of Johnstown ...
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District Incumbent This race Member Party First elected Results Candidates Michigan 7: Vacant Incumbent member-elect Omar D. Conger (R) resigned during previous congress. ...
James A. Garfield. On July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., resulting in his death in Elberon, New Jersey, two and a half months later on September 19, 1881.
Garfield left his home in Mentor, Ohio, for Washington, D.C., on Monday, February 28, 1881.. In his address, Garfield denounced attempts to impede African-American suffrage, expressed his confidence in the gold standard, warned against the dangers of high rates of illiteracy, and admonished the practice of polygamy by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [2]
Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes 1 January United Kingdom Messrs. Campbell & Co. Paisley: Acorn: Steamship: For Messrs. P. H. Dixon & Co. [1] 1 January
March 1 – The Cunard Line's SS Servia, the first steel transatlantic liner, is launched at J. & G. Thomson's yard at Clydebank in Scotland. [12]May 16 – The Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway, the world's first electric tramway, is opened in Berlin by Siemens & Halske.