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1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII)
was a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1887th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 887th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 87th year of the 19th century,
and the 8th year of the 1880s decade. As of
the start of 1887, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit]
·
January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in
the Académie
Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. ·
January 20 – The United States Senate allows
the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as
a naval base. ·
The Amateur Athletic
Union (AAU) is formed in the United States. ·
Brisbane receives a one-day rainfall of
465 millimetres (18.3 in) (a record for any Australian capital city). ·
January 24 – Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians. ·
In
a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They
are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. ·
Construction
on the foundation of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France. ·
February 2 – The first Groundhog Day is observed in Punxsutawney,
Pennsylvania. ·
February 4 – The Interstate
Commerce Act of 1887, passed by the 49th United
States Congress, is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. ·
February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala. ·
February 8 – The Dawes Act, or the General Allotment Act, is
enacted. ·
February 23 – The French Riviera is hit by a large
earthquake, killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean. ·
February 26 – At the Sydney Cricket
Ground, George Lohmann becomes
the first bowler to
take eight wickets, in a Test innings. ·
March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen
Keller.
March 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan. ·
March 4 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first
automobile.
March 4: Daimler ·
March 7 – North
Carolina State University is established, as North Carolina
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. ·
March 13 – Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs. April–June[edit] ·
April 1 – The Mumbai Fire Brigade is
established in India. ·
April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter,
as the first female mayor in the United States. ·
April 9 – The Charter of
Incorporation is approved for The Teutonia
Maennerchor Hall, in the East Allegheny(Deutschtown)
neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ·
April 10 – The Catholic
University of America is founded on Easter Sunday, in
Washington, DC. ·
April 20 – Occidental College is
founded in Los Angeles,
California. ·
April 21 – Schnaebele incident:
A French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two
countries. ·
May 3 – An earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico. ·
May 9 – Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens
in London. ·
May 14 – The cornerstone of the
new Stanford University,
in northern California, is laid
(the college opens in 1891). ·
June 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punched card calculator. ·
June 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty is
closed, between Germany and Russia. ·
June 21 ·
The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden
Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.[1] ·
Zululand becomes a British colony. ·
June 23 – The Rocky Mountains
Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's
first national park, Banff National Park.[2] ·
June 28 – Minot, North Dakota is
incorporated as a city.
June 23: Banff National Park ·
June 29 – The United Retail
Federation is established in Brisbane, Australia. July–September[edit] ·
July – James Blyth operates
the first working wind turbine at Marykirk, Scotland.[3][4] ·
July 1 – Construction of the iron
structure of the Eiffel Tower starts
in Paris, France. ·
July 6 – King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is
forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet
Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of
much of its authority, as well as disenfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor. ·
July 12 – Odense Boldklub, the Danish football team,
is founded as the Odense Cricket Club. ·
July 19 – Dorr Eugene Felt receives the first
U.S. patent for his comptometer.[5] ·
July 26 ·
L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's
International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international
auxiliary language. ·
Blackpool F.C. is created in England,
UK. ·
August – The earliest constituent of
the U.S. National
Institutes of Health is established at the Marine
Hospital, Staten Island,
as the Laboratory of Hygiene. ·
August 8 – Antonio Guzmán
Blanco ends his term as President of Venezuela. ·
August 13 – Hibernian F.C. of Scotland
defeats Preston North End
F.C. of England to win the Championship of the World,
after the two teams win the Association football Cup
competitions in their respective countries. ·
September 5 – The Theatre Royal,
Exeter, England, burns down, killing 186 people. ·
September 28 – The 1887 Yellow River
flood begins in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.
October–December[edit] ·
October 1 – The British Empire takes over Balochistan. ·
October 3 – Florida
A&M University opens its doors in Tallahassee, Florida. ·
November ·
Results
of the Michelson–Morley
experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light
is independent of motion. ·
Arthur Conan Doyle's
detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first
appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet,
published in Beeton's
Christmas Annual. ·
November 3 – The Coimbra
Academic Association, the students' union of the University of
Coimbra in Portugal, is founded. ·
November 6 – The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, to help alleviate poverty
in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the Poor
Children's Dinner Table.[6][7] ·
November 8 – Emile Berliner is granted a patent for
his Gramophone. ·
November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his
alleged role in the Haymarket affair (a bombing in Chicago
on May 4, 1886),
kills himself by dynamite. ·
November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for inciting
riot and murder, in the Haymarket affair. ·
November 13 – Bloody Sunday:
Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
·
December 5 – The International Bureau
of Intellectual
Property is established. ·
December 25 – Glenfiddich single malt Scotch
whisky is first produced. Date unknown[edit] ·
Franz König publishes
"Über freie Körper in den Gelenken" in the medical journal Deutsche
Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, describing (and naming) the disease Osteochondritis
dissecans for the first time. ·
Teachers
College, later part of Columbia University,
is founded. ·
The
first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held. ·
Heinrich Hertz discovers the photoelectric effect on
the production and reception of electromagnetic (EM) waves (radio); this is
an important step towards the understanding of the quantum nature of light. ·
A. G. Edwards, Inc., is founded by
General Albert Gallatin
Edwards. ·
Heyl &
Patterson Inc., a pioneer in coal unloading equipment, is founded
by Edmund W. Heyl and William J. Patterson. ·
Laos and Cambodia are added to French Indochina. ·
The
first English-language edition of Friedrich Engels' 1844 study of The Condition of the Working Class in England,
translated by Florence Kelley,
is published in New York City. ·
Publication
in Barcelona of Enrique Gaspar's El
anacronópete, the first work of fiction to feature a time machine.[8] ·
Publication
begins of Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo,
the first modern novel in Japan. ·
The Hermetic
Order of the Golden Dawn is founded. Births[edit] January–March[edit]
·
Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military
intelligence in World War II (d. 1945) ·
Max Ritter von
Müller, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918) ·
January 3 – August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) ·
January 10 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962) ·
January 13 – Jorge Chávez, pioneer Peruvian aviator
(d. 1910) ·
January 17 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst,
philologist (d. 1975) ·
January 19 – Alexander Woollcott,
American intellectual (d. 1943) ·
January 21 – Maude Davis, oldest person in the World (d. 2002) ·
Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972) ·
Elmer Fowler Stone,
American aviator, first United States Coast Guard aviator (d. 1936) ·
Miklós Kállay,
34th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1967) ·
Dorothy Payne
Whitney, American-born philanthropist, social activist (d. 1968) ·
January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein,
Polish-born pianist, conductor (d. 1982) ·
February 1 – Charles Nordhoff, English-born author
(d. 1947) ·
February 3 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914) ·
Masaichi Niimi, Imperial Japanese Navy
admiral during World War II (d. 1993) ·
Sheila Kaye-Smith,
English writer (d. 1955) ·
February 6 – Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne
(d. 1978) ·
February 10 – John Franklin Enders,
American scientist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985) ·
Ernst Hanfstaengl,
German-born pianist, U.S. politician (d. 1975) ·
H. Kent Hewitt,
American admiral (d. 1972) ·
John van Melle, Dutch-born writer (d. 1953) ·
February 12 – Edelmiro Julián
Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of
Argentina (d. 1980) ·
Joseph Bech, Luxembourgish politician,
2-time Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1975) ·
Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947) ·
Carl Ebert, German theatre, opera director
(d. 1980) ·
Vincent Massey, Governor General of Canada
(d. 1967) ·
Grover
Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950) ·
William Frawley, American actor (d. 1966) ·
March 3 – Lincoln Beachey, American stunt pilot
(d. 1915) ·
March 4 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre
actress (d. 1953) ·
March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos,
Brazilian composer (d. 1959) ·
March 9 – Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958) ·
March 11 – Raoul Walsh, American film director
(d. 1980) ·
March 13 – Alexander Vandegrift,
American general (d. 1973) ·
March 14 ·
Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris
(d. 1952) ·
Charles Reisner, American silent actor, film director (d. 1962) ·
March 22 – Chico Marx, American comedian, actor
(d. 1961) ·
March 23 ·
Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter, graphic
artist (d. 1927) ·
Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967) ·
March 24 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, comedian,
film director, and screenwriter (d. 1933) ·
March 25 – Chūichi Nagumo,
Japanese admiral (d. 1944) April–June[edit]
·
April 2 – Louise Schroeder, German politician
(d. 1957) ·
April 3 – Nishizō
Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (d. 1966) ·
April 10 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine
physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1971) ·
April 12 – Harold Lockwood, American film actor (d.1918) ·
April 15 – Mike Brady,
American golfer (d. 1972) ·
April 26 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou,
prominent African critic of the French colonial empire in Africa (d. 1936) ·
May 2 ·
Vernon Castle, British dancer (d. 1918) ·
Eddie Collins, American baseball player
(d. 1951) ·
May 5 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of
Canterbury (d. 1972) ·
May 10 – Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha,
40th master of the Oveyssi Sufi Order (d. 1962) ·
May 11 – Paul Wittgenstein,
Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951) ·
May 15 – John H. Hoover, American admiral (d. 1970) ·
May 16 – Laura Wheeler Waring,
African-America painter (d. 148) ·
May 22 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953) ·
May 25 – Pio of Pietrelcina,
Italian saint (d. 1968) ·
May 26 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971) ·
May 31 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, writer
and Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
June 2 – Orrick Johns, American poet, playwright
(d. 1946) ·
June 3 – Carlo Michelstaedter,
Italian philosopher (d. 1910) ·
June 5 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist
(d. 1948) ·
June 9 – Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander
(d. 1937) ·
June 13 – André
François-Poncet, French politician, diplomat (d. 1978) ·
June 22 ·
Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975) ·
Santiago Amat, Spanish sailor (d. 1982) ·
June 25 – George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995) ·
June 26 – Ganna Walska, Polish opera singer (d. 1984) ·
June 29 – Geertje
Roelinga-de Groot, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1997) July–September[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Maria
Isidia da Conceição, Brazilian supercentenarian ·
Morton Deyo, American admiral (d. 1973) ·
July 3 – Elith Pio, Danish actor (d. 1983) ·
July 6 ·
Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985) ·
Annette Kellermann,
Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, writer and
business owner (d. 1975) ·
July 7 – Raymond Hatton, American actor (d. 1971) ·
July 9 – Samuel Eliot Morison,
American historian (d. 1976) ·
July 16 – Shoeless Joe Jackson,
American baseball player (d. 1951) ·
July 18 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician,
traitor (d. 1945) ·
July 22 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
July 28 – Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968) ·
July 29 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer
(d. 1951) ·
July 31 – Mitsuru Ushijima, Japanese general (d. 1945) ·
August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet (d. 1915) ·
August 4 – Peter Bocage, American jazz musician
(d. 1967) ·
August 6 – Oliver Wallace, English-born film composer
(d. 1963) ·
August 12 – Erwin Schrödinger,
Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961) ·
August 13 – Julius Freed, American inventor, banker
(d. 1952) ·
August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968);
other sources give her year of birth as 1885 ·
Emperor Charles I of Austria (d. 1922) ·
Marcus Garvey, African American publisher,
entrepreneur and Pan Africanist (d. 1940) ·
August 22 – Walter
Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (d. 1983) ·
August 24 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player
(d. 1974) ·
August 27 – Julia Sanderson, American actress (d. 1975) ·
August 28 – István Kühár, Prekmurje Slovene writer,
politician (d. 1922) ·
September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961) ·
September 3 – Frank
Christian, American jazz musician (d. 1973) ·
September 5 – Irene Fenwick, American actress (d. 1936) ·
September 8 – Jacob L. Devers, American general (d. 1979) ·
September 9 – Alf Landon, American Republican politician,
presidential candidate (d. 1987) ·
September 10 – Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd President of Italy
(d. 1978) ·
September 12 – Yusif Vazir
Chamanzaminli, Azerbaijani statesman, writer and claimed
"core author" of novel Ali and Nino (d. in Gulag 1943) ·
Lancelot Holland, British admiral (d. 1941) ·
Leopold Ružička,
Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1976) ·
Theodore Roosevelt
Jr., American political, business leader (d. 1944) ·
George Roby Dempster,
American businessman, inventor and politician (d. 1964) ·
Nadia Boulanger, French composer and
composition teacher (d. 1979) ·
Edwin Keppel Bennett,
British writer (d. 1958) ·
William
Barnard Rhodes-Moorhouse, British aviator, first airman to receive
the Victoria Cross (d. 1915) ·
September 28 – Avery Brundage, American sports official
(d. 1975) October–December[edit] ·
October 2 – Violet Jessop, Argentine-born British RMS Titanic survivor
(d. 1971) ·
October 4 – Charles Alan Pownall,
American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam (d. 1975) ·
October 5 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of
the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976) ·
October 6 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965) ·
October 8 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-born actor
(d. 1956) ·
October 13 – Jozef Tiso, Prime Minister of Slovakia
(d. 1947) ·
October 14 – Ernest Pingoud, Finnish composer (d. 1942) ·
October 20 – Prince Yasuhiko
Asaka, Japanese prince (d. 1981) ·
October 22 – John Reed,
American journalist (d. 1920) ·
October 24 – Victoria
Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen Consort of Spain (d. 1969) ·
October 28 – Herb Byrne, Australian rules footballer
(d. 1959) ·
October 31 – Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the
Republic of China (d. 1975) ·
November 1 – L. S. Lowry, English painter (d. 1976) ·
November 6 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player
(d. 1946) ·
November 10 – Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968) ·
Walther Wever,
German general, pre-World War II Luftwaffe commander (d. 1936) ·
Roland Young, English actor (d. 1953) ·
December 14 – Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor,
writer (d. 1963) ·
November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe,
American painter (d. 1986) ·
November 17 – Bernard Montgomery,
British World War II commander (d. 1976) ·
November 19 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1955) ·
Boris Karloff, British horror film actor
(d. 1969) ·
Henry Moseley, English physicist (d. 1915) ·
November 24 – Erich von Manstein,
German field marshal (d. 1973) ·
November 27 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946) ·
Jacobo Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1982) ·
Ernst Röhm, German Nazi SA leader (d. 1934) ·
November 30 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver,
and aquatic performer (d. 1971) ·
December 3 – Prince
Naruhiko Higashikuni, former Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1990) ·
December 6 – Lynn Fontanne, British-born actress
(d. 1983) ·
December 12 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974) ·
December 13 – Alvin Cullum York,
American World War I hero
(d. 1964) ·
December 16 – Adone Zoli, Italian politician, 35th Prime Minister of
Italy (d. 1960) ·
December 22 – Srinivasa
Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) ·
December 25 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (d. 1979) ·
December 26 – Arthur Percival, British general (d. 1966) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Isabel Emslie Hutton,
Scottish nurse in Serbia during World War I, psychiatrist (d. 1960) ·
Alfred Naqqache, Lebanese politician, 11th
Prime Minister, 4th President of Lebanon (d. 1978) ·
Sami as-Solh, 5-time Prime Minister of
Lebanon (d. 1968) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 12 – Stafford
Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, British politician (b. 1818) ·
February 19 – Eduard Douwes Dekker,
Dutch writer (b. 1820) ·
February 26 – Anandi Gopal Joshi,
first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865) ·
February 27 – Alexander Borodin,
Russian composer (b. 1833) ·
March 4 – Catherine Huggins,
British actor, singer, director and manager (b. 1821) ·
March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher,
American clergyman, reformer (b. 1813) ·
March 24 – ·
Justin Holland, American musician, civil
rights activist (b. 1819) ·
Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (b. 1837) ·
March 28 – Ditlev Gothard
Monrad, Danish politician (b. 1811) ·
April 10 – John T. Raymond, American actor (b. 1836) ·
April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes,
Welsh poet (b. 1832) ·
May 7 – C. F. W. Walther, German-American theologian
(b. 1811) ·
May 8 – Aleksandr Ulyanov,
Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866) ·
May 14 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher,
abolitionist (b. 1808) ·
June 4 – William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice
President of the United States (b. 1819) ·
June 10 – Richard Lindon, British inventor of the
rugby ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder and the brass hand pump for
the same (b. 1816) July–December[edit]
·
July 8 – John Wright Oakes,
English landscape painter (b. 1820) ·
July 17 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist
(b. 1802) ·
July 25 – John Taylor,
American religious leader (b. 1808) ·
August 8 – Alexander
William Doniphan, American lawyer, soldier (b. 1808) ·
Webster Paulson, English civil engineer
(b. 1837) ·
Sir Julius von Haast, German-born New
Zealand geologist (b. 1822) ·
August 19 – Alvan Clark, American telescope manufacturer
(b. 1804) ·
August 20 – Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) ·
October 17 – Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824) ·
October 21 – Bernard
Jauréguiberry, French admiral, statesman (b. 1815) ·
Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820) ·
Alfred Domett, 4th Premier of New
Zealand (b. 1811) ·
November 8 – Doc Holliday, American gambler, gunfighter
(b. 1851) ·
November 19 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859) ·
November 28 – Gustav Fechner, German experimental
psychologist (b. 1801) ·
December 5 – Richard
Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, British diplomat (b. 1817) ·
December 14 – William Garrow
Lettsom, British diplomat, mineralogist and spectroscopist
(b. 1805) ·
December 23 – Adolphus
Frederick Alexander Woodford, British parson (b. 1821) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Antoinette Nording,
Swedish perfume entrepreneur (b. 1814) References[edit] 1.
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James (1839–1906)". Oxford
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