What else was happening in 1881?
January 1881 Tuesday 25:
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company
March 1881 Friday 04:
A Study in Scarlet, the first Sherlock Holmes story, begins
April 1881 Saturday 16:
In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
May 1881 Saturday 21:
The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton
July 1881 Saturday 02:
Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from infection on September 19
September 1881 Tuesday 20:
Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States
October 1881 Wednesday 26:
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
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