
1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} ==Events== ===January=== * January 20 - The United States Senate allows the United States 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 Italy * January 28 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick. ===February=== * February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. * February 5- The Giuseppe Verdi opera ''Otello'' premieres at La Scala * February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000. * February 26 - At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler (cricket) to take eight wickets in a Test cricket innings. ===March=== * March 3 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller * March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile * March 13 - Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs ===April=== * April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States. * April 20 - George Bouton wins the worlds 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 18 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia. * June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25] * June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city. ===July=== * July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes Unua Libro. * 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. ===December=== * December 25 - Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first ran from the stills of Glenfiddich Distillery. The whisky is still produced today by William Grant & Sons. ===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 (cyclist) 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 Gaelic football Finals are held * Suez Canal is declared neutral * Japan annexes Iwo Jima * Zululand becomes a British colony * Huang He 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, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945) * January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) * January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943) * January 21 - Maude Farris-Luse , supercentenarian (d. 2002) * January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982) ===February=== * February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947) * February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933) * February 3 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914) * February 6 - Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) * February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975) * February 11 - John van Melle Dutch-born South African writer (d. 1953) * February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek 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, English poet (d. 1915) * March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959) * March 9 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958) * March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952) * March 22 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961) * March 23 - Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927) * March 23 - Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967) * March 24 - Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933) ===May=== * May 2 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951) * May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972) * May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951) * May 26 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971) * May 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953) * May 31 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (d. 1975) ===June=== * June 2 - Orrick Johns, American poet and playwright (d. 1946) * June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975) * June 25 - George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995) ===July=== * July 7 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985) * July 16 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (d. 1951) * July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945) * July 22 - Gustav Hertz, German physicist (d. 1975) * July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968) * July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951) ===August=== * August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (d. 1961) * August 13 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952) * August 15 - Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968) * August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria (d. 1922) * August 17 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (d. 1940) * August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) * August 24 - Harry Hooper, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974) ===September=== * September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961) * September 3 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973) * September 16 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979) * September 28 - Avery Brundage, American sports official ===October=== * October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965) * October 8 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian-born actor (d. 1956) * October 22 - John Reed (journalist), American journalist (d. 1920) * October 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (d. 1968) * October 31 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist (d. 1975) ===November=== * November 6 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946) * November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968) * November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, World War II British commander (d. 1976) * November 19 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) ===December=== * December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974) * December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) ==Deaths== * February 27 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833) * March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813) * May 14 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808) * July 17 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802) * July 25 - John Taylor (1808-1887), American religious leader (b. 1808) * August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) * August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) * October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824) * November 2 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820) * November 8 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851) * November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859) * December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) 1887 la:1887 os:1887 scn:1887 simple:1887
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1887
1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} ==Events== ===January=== * January 20 - The United States Senate allows the United States 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 Italy * January 28 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, USA, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick. ===February=== * February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed. * February 5- The Giuseppe Verdi opera ''Otello'' premieres at La Scala * February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000. * February 26 - At the Sydney Cricket Ground, George Lohmann becomes the first bowler (cricket) to take eight wickets in a Test cricket innings. ===March=== * March 3 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller * March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile * March 13 - Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs ===April=== * April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States. * April 20 - George Bouton wins the worlds 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 18 - The Reinsurance Treaty is closed between Germany and Russia. * June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cseh-twih/archives2_E.asp?id=25] * June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city. ===July=== * July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes Unua Libro. * 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. ===December=== * December 25 - Glenfiddich single malt Scotch whisky first ran from the stills of Glenfiddich Distillery. The whisky is still produced today by William Grant & Sons. ===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 (cyclist) 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 Gaelic football Finals are held * Suez Canal is declared neutral * Japan annexes Iwo Jima * Zululand becomes a British colony * Huang He 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, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945) * January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) * January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943) * January 21 - Maude Farris-Luse , supercentenarian (d. 2002) * January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982) ===February=== * February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947) * February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933) * February 3 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (d. 1914) * February 6 - Josef Frings, Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) * February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U.S. politician (d. 1975) * February 11 - John van Melle Dutch-born South African writer (d. 1953) * February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek 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, English poet (d. 1915) * March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959) * March 9 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (d. 1958) * March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952) * March 22 - Chico Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1961) * March 23 - Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927) * March 23 - Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967) * March 24 - Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933) ===May=== * May 2 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951) * May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972) * May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951) * May 26 - Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971) * May 28 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (d. 1953) * May 31 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (d. 1975) ===June=== * June 2 - Orrick Johns, American poet and playwright (d. 1946) * June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975) * June 25 - George Abbott, American playwright (d. 1995) ===July=== * July 7 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985) * July 16 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player (d. 1951) * July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945) * July 22 - Gustav Hertz, German physicist (d. 1975) * July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968) * July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951) ===August=== * August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist (d. 1961) * August 13 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952) * August 15 - Edna Ferber, American novelist (d. 1968) * August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria (d. 1922) * August 17 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (d. 1940) * August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) * August 24 - Harry Hooper, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974) ===September=== * September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961) * September 3 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973) * September 16 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979) * September 28 - Avery Brundage, American sports official ===October=== * October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965) * October 8 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian-born actor (d. 1956) * October 22 - John Reed (journalist), American journalist (d. 1920) * October 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (d. 1968) * October 31 - Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Nationalist (d. 1975) ===November=== * November 6 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946) * November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968) * November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, World War II British commander (d. 1976) * November 19 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) ===December=== * December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974) * December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) ==Deaths== * February 27 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer (b. 1833) * March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813) * May 14 - Lysander Spooner, American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808) * July 17 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist (b. 1802) * July 25 - John Taylor (1808-1887), American religious leader (b. 1808) * August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808) * August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860) * October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (b. 1824) * November 2 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820) * November 8 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851) * November 19 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1859) * December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (b. 1804) 1887 la:1887 os:1887 scn:1887 simple:1887
1887
The year in topic layout on this page is one of three versions. I seek opinions before making them all the same; see comment on my talk page 1887 is currently conforming to proposed general model --User:BozMo 12:15, 5 May 2004 (UTC)User Talk:BozMo
1887
1880s
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