What Happened In May 1871 - Historical Events 1871 May

Historical Events for May, 1871

4th » The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players called National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
21st » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
21st » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi-Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
22nd » The United States Army known as U.S. Army issues an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.
28th » Fall of the Paris Commune.

1st » Seakle Greijdanus, Dutch theologian (d. 1948)
3rd » Emmett Dalton, American criminal (d. 1937)
6th » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
6th » Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)
11th » Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
18th » Denis Horgan, Irish thrower (d. 1922)
19th » Walter Russell, American painter, sculptor, and author (d. 1963)
22nd » Harold Nelson (illustrator) or Harold Nelson, English illustrator and engraver (d. 1948)
23rd » Saint George Ashe, Maltese-English rower (d. 1922)
27th » Georges Rouault, French painter (d. 1958)
30th » Nándor Dáni, Hungarian runner (d. 1949)
30th » Olga Engl, Austrian-German actress (d. 1946)