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1881 News
Queen Victoria was opposed to equal rights for women. Louise Garrett Anderson explained what happened in 1881 when it was decided that women doctors could attend the International Medical Congress about to be held in London.
The idea of women practising medicine in Great Britain distressed Queen Victoria. Indeed in 1881 the Queen's private physician announced that the royal patronage would be withdrawn from an international medical congress held in London if medical women were admitted, and so the women were shut out.
Legendary Western outlaw Billy the Kid is supposed to have died after pistol shots rang through the night in the New Mexico desert 122 years ago. Sheriff Pat Garrett shot him dead on July 14, 1881 in a house in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Planet Venus passed in front of the sun during the year of 1881. That means that if the Sun was in the middle of a huge piece of
paper, all the planets would go around it, along the same piece of paper. Venus facts
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Venus is the second planet from the Sun |
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Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System temperature at its surface about 500 degrees |
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At Venus' surface, it rains sulphuric acid! |
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Venus is often seen in the early evening or early morning sky, looking like a really bright star |
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Venus is often thought to be a UFO |
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It takes Venus 243 days to spin once on its axis and 225 days to go around the Sun. |
President Rutherford Hayes nominated Stanley Mathews. He was defeated because of his close ties to railroad and financial interests.
Alexander Graham Bell - At the Volta Laboratory, Bell, his cousin, Chichester Bell, and Charles Sumner Tainter invent a wax cylinder for Thomas Edison's phonograph.
July-August 1881 When President Garfield is shot, Bell attempts unsuccessfully to locate the bullet inside his body by using an electromagnetic device called an induction balance (metal detector).
August 15 Death in infancy of Bell's son, Edward
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