Today in History for Year 1887

Months in Year 1887: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 107

Jan 4th - Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
Jan 5th - 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
Jan 6th - `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II.
Jan 16th - Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
Jan 20th - US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
Jan 21st - Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
Jan 21st - Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city.
Jan 26th - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
Jan 28th - England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
Jan 28th - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
Feb 1st - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
Feb 2nd - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
Feb 3rd - To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
Feb 4th - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
Feb 5th - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
Feb 5th - Snow falls on SF
Feb 8th - Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
Feb 8th - Under the Dawes Act indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship
Feb 8th - The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
Composer Giuseppe Verdi Feb 14th - Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
Feb 16th - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
Feb 16th - Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
Feb 20th - 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
Feb 20th - Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
Feb 21st - 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
Feb 21st - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
Feb 22nd - Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
Feb 23rd - Congress grants Seal Rocks to SF
Feb 23rd - French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
Feb 26th - George Lohmann took 1st 8-wkt haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
Mar 2nd - American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
Mar 3rd - American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa
Mar 3rd - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
Mar 7th - North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
Author Helen Keller Mar 8th - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
Mar 13th - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
Mar 15th - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
Mar 24th - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
Apr 4th - Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
Apr 5th - Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
Apr 10th - President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il
Apr 10th - Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
Apr 12th - Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo
Apr 14th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
Apr 26th - Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
Apr 30th - 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
May 2nd - G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence
May 2nd - Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
May 9th - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
US President Abraham Lincoln May 11th - 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39.25
May 13th - 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39.25
May 18th - Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgré Luis," premieres in Paris
May 23rd - 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
May 24th - Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors
May 25th - Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
May 26th - Racetrack betting becomes legal in NY state
Jun 7th - Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
Jun 8th - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
Jun 9th - 21st Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hanover wins in 2:43.5
Jun 15th - Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
Jun 15th - NY Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
Jun 15th - Stanley's expedition reaches Yambuya waterfalls Congo
Jun 18th - The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
Jun 21st - Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
Jun 28th - Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
Jul 4th - The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
Jul 6th - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
Jul 26th - 1st Esperanto book published
Aug 2nd - Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
Aug 10th - Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
Aug 21st - Mighty (Dan) Casey struck-out in a game with NY Giants!
Aug 31st - Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
Sep 1st - Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
Sep 5th - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
Sep 15th - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
Sep 26th - Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
Sep 28th - Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
Sep 30th - Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG)
Sep 30th - Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
Oct 1st - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
Oct 8th - Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
Oct 11th - A Miles patents elevator
Oct 18th - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
Oct 21st - Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
Oct 26th - Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in World Series
Oct 31st - Rimski-Korsakov's "Capricio Espagñol," premieres in St Petersburg
Nov 5th - Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
Nov 11th - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
Nov 11th - Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
Nov 13th - Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Nov 15th - British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
Nov 19th - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
Nov 23rd - Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
Nov 23rd - Opera "Trumpeter of Säckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
Nov 24th - Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premieres in Paris
Nov 29th - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
Nov 30th - 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
Dec 1st - Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
Dec 1st - Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
Dec 2nd - Amsterdam's Oscar Carrés Circus Theater opens

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 270

Jan 1st - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence
Jan 3rd - Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)
Jan 3rd - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
Jan 10th - Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)
Jan 11th - Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)
Jan 13th - George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
Jan 16th - John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)
Jan 17th - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
Jan 19th - Alexander Woollcott, NJ, short story writer (Man Who Came to Dinner)
Jan 21st - Alfred Henry Ackley, composer
Jan 21st - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
Jan 22nd - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
Jan 25th - Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze)
Jan 26th - Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist
Jan 26th - Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US lt-admiral (WW II-Task Force 58)
Jan 26th - François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
Jan 27th - Carl Blegen, Minneapolis, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
Jan 28th - Artur Rubinstein, Lodz Poland, pianist
Jan 28th - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer
Jan 29th - Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
Feb 1st - Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
Feb 1st - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
Feb 2nd - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
Feb 3rd - Carlo Jachino, composer
Feb 3rd - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely)
Feb 3rd - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
Feb 3rd - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
Feb 6th - Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
Feb 7th - Eubie Blake, American musician and composer (d. 1983)
Feb 9th - Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 HRs)
Feb 9th - Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
Feb 10th - [Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9]
Feb 11th - John van Melle, South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
Feb 13th - Alvin York, famed US soldier with 25 kills in WW I
Feb 15th - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
Feb 16th - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
Feb 17th - Leevi Antti Madetoja, composer
Feb 18th - Nikos Kasandsakis, writer
Feb 20th - David McKinley Williams, composer
Feb 20th - Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
Feb 21st - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
Feb 22nd - Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
Feb 23rd - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer
Feb 24th - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
Feb 25th - Leonard Carey, England, actor (Laughter)
Feb 26th - Benegal Narsing Rau, India, pres of UN Security Council (1950)
Feb 26th - Grover Cleveland Alexander, HOF baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs)
Feb 26th - William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966)
Feb 26th - Stefan Grabinski, Polish writer (d. 1936)
Feb 27th - James D Innes, English painter
Feb 28th - William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
Mar 4th - Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
Mar 5th - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, composer (Salon Waltz)
Mar 6th - Henri Gagnon, composer
Mar 7th - Heino Eller, composer
Mar 9th - Phil Mead, cricketer (strong batsman for England pre- & post-WWI)
Mar 9th - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
Mar 10th - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
Mar 11th - Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry), (d. 1980)
Mar 13th - Carlos Isamitt, composer
Mar 14th - George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
Mar 14th - Lawrence Collingwood, composer
Mar 14th - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
Mar 15th - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
Mar 17th - Ben Sajet, Dutch physician/politician
Mar 21st - Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor
Mar 22nd - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers)
Mar 23rd - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
Mar 23rd - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
Mar 23rd - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
Mar 23rd - Sidney Hillman, union leader (Sidney Hillman Foundation)
Mar 24th - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)
Mar 28th - Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer
Mar 30th - Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
Mar 31st - Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
Apr 1st - Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist
Apr 8th - Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
Apr 10th - Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
Apr 10th - Heinz Tiessen, composer
Apr 12th - Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
Apr 13th - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
Apr 21st - Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer
Apr 21st - Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
Apr 24th - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
May 1st - Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)
May 2nd - Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)
May 2nd - Vernon Castle, English dancer (d. 1918)
May 5th - Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA
May 5th - Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury
May 7th - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
May 9th - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
May 9th - Sir Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan Philanthropist (d. 1957)
May 10th - Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels)
May 12th - Nandor Zsolt, composer
May 16th - Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
May 16th - J van Hoddis, writer
May 18th - Ernst Wiechert, writer
May 21st - Mabel Taliaferro, NYC, actress (Sentimental Tommy, My Love Come Back)
May 23rd - Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
May 24th - Edward "Mick" Mannock, Irish WWI flying ace (d. 1918)

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Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 59 of 59

Jan 1st - Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66
Jan 7th - Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74
Jan 14th - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
Jan 14th - Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77
Jan 17th - William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)
Feb 10th - Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73
Feb 10th - Pieter JBCR van der Aa, Dutch geographer, dies at 54
Feb 15th - Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
Feb 19th - Eduard Douwes Dekker (pen name Multatuli), Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66
Feb 27th - Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53
Mar 2nd - August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47
Mar 2nd - Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63
Mar 8th - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
Mar 8th - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
Mar 8th - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
Mar 16th - Emanuel Kania, composer, dies at 59
Mar 20th - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
Mar 24th - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
Mar 28th - Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75
Apr 11th - Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54
Apr 20th - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
Apr 28th - Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67
Apr 30th - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71
May 7th - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
May 8th - Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
May 11th - Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
May 14th - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
May 23rd - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
May 27th - Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer, dies at 86
Jun 12th - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
Jun 21st - Adolf Schimon, composer, dies at 67
Jul 5th - August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies
Jul 16th - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
Jul 17th - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
Jul 25th - John Taylor, American religious leader (b. 1808)
Jul 29th - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
Aug 8th - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808)
Aug 14th - Richard Jeffries, naturalist/essayist, dies
Aug 17th - Franz Commer, composer, dies at 74
Aug 20th - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
Aug 27th - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74
Sep 14th - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies
Sep 29th - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810)
Oct 7th - George James Webb, composer, dies at 84
Oct 17th - Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63
Oct 31st - George Alexander Macfarren, composer, dies at 74
Nov 2nd - Jenny Lind, [Swedish Nightingale], soprano, dies at 67
Nov 8th - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
Nov 11th - Haymarket defenda
Nov 18th - Eduard Marxsen, composer, dies at 81
Nov 18th - Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86
Nov 18th - Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80
Nov 19th - Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38
Nov 20th - Louis Gallait, Belgian painter (Egmont & Receiver), dies at 77
Nov 25th - Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71
Dec 1st - Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 78
Dec 5th - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804)
Dec 9th - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and military leader
Dec 26th - Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer, dies at 40