Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

Mar 24   Oscar Straus appointed inaugural Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)   

Mar 24   Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)   

Mar 28   Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75   

Mar 28   Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer.   

Mar 30   Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great).   

Mar 31   Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer.   

Apr 01   Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist.   

Apr 02   Juneau Alaska the US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific (boy they sure pick on us).   

Apr 04   Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)   

Apr 04   Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)   

Apr 05   Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller   

Apr 08   Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)   

Apr 10   Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947).   

Apr 10   President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il   

Apr 11   Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54.   

Apr 12   Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo.   

Apr 14   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG).   

Apr 21   Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer   

Apr 26   Cardston, Alberta Joseph Ora Card and a small group of Mormons are discovered the community that will become Cardston, Alberta;.   

Apr 26   Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity   

Apr 26   Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity   

Apr 28   Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67.   

Apr 30   1st game played at Broad and Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10   

Apr 30   Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71.   

May 01   Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48).   

May 02   Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's).   

May 02   G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence   

May 02   Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.   

May 03   In the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault   

May 05   Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA   

May 07   Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)   

May 08   Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar.   

May 09   Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London   

May 09   Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer.   

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Jan 01   Wilhelm canaris: German admiral/head german military intelligence   

Jan 03   Helen parkhurst: Us educator (education on the dalton plan)   

Jan 03   August macke: German painter    

Jan 10   Robinson jeffers: Us, poet/playwright (tamar & other poems, medea)   

Jan 11   Aldo leopold: Founder (wilderness society)   

Jan 13   George gurdjieff: Armenian-greek mystic    

Jan 16   John hamilton: Penn, actor (perry white-superman)   

Jan 17   Ola raknes: Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist   

Jan 01   Johan hendrik koelman: Portrait painter,   

Jan 07   Abraham i van lier: Dutch actor/director (gran theatre),    

Jan 14   Friedrich von amerling: Austrian painter,   

Jan 17   William giblin: Premier of tasmania (b. 1840)   

Feb 10   Ellen wood: English author (pomeroy abbey),    

Feb 15   Alexander borodin: Composer,   

Feb 19   Eduard douwes dekker: Dutch writer (max havelaar),   

Feb 27   Alexander porfir'yevich borodin: Russian composer,