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 | |
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| Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1887 in art List of state leaders in 1887 | |
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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)
July
- July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (d. 1951)
August
- August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist
- August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria
- August 17 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey, publisher, entrepreneur, black nationalist (d. 1940)
- August 24 - Harry Hooper, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
September
- September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer
- September 3 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973)
- September 16 - Kamato Hongo, later Oldest Person in the World.
- September 28 - Avery Brundage, American sports official
October
- October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- October 8 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1956)
- October 22 - John Reed, journalist (d. 1920)
November
- November 6 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946)
- November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
- November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, famous WWII British commander
December
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer
- December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
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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