1887

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1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar).

Years:
1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890

Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1887 in art
1887 in literature
1887 in music
1887 in science
1887 in sports

List of state leaders in 1887
List of religious leaders in 1887

Events

January

January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed
January 26 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians

February

February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.

March

March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile

April

April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
April 20 - George Bouton wins the world?s first motor racing contest ? he is the only participant

May

May 3 - Earthquake in Sonora, Mexico
May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.

June

June 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [1]
June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.

July

July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language".
July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio

November

In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw.

Unknown Dates

L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto
U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded
Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
Michelson-Morley experiment is performed
Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
The New Gate is built in Jerusalem
Comptometer patented by Dorr Eugene Felt
The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held
Suez Canal is declared neutral
Japan annexes Iwo Jima
Zululand becomes a British colony
Yellow river floods in China - 900,000 dead
British nurses association organized
Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn founded
Spandau Prison in Berlin finished
Portugal abolishes death penalty for murder

Births

January

January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, later head of German Abwehr
January 3 - August Macke, painter (d. 1914)
January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (d. 1943)
January 21 - Maude Davis, later Oldest Person in the World (d. 2002)
January 28 - Artur Rubinstein, Polish pianist, conductor (d. 1982)

February

February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (d. 1947)
February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (d. 1914)
February 6 - Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German/US pianist/politician.
February 11 - John van Melle South African writer
February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (d. 1957)
February 20 - Carl Ebert, opera manager and director (d. 1980)
February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)

March

March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian, actor (d. 1961)
March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (d. 1933)

May

May 2 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
May 26 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971)
May 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (d. 1953)

June

June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)

Deaths

February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
May 14 - Lysander Spooner, individualist anarchist (b. 1808)
July 25 - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist
November 2 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)

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