Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

Mar 24   On this day in history roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)   

Mar 24   On this day in history the birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor   

Mar 28   Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

Mar 28   In the year 1887 rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer   

Mar 30   On this day in history albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)   

Mar 31   On this day in history jose Maria Usandizaga, composer   

Apr 01   In the year 1887 leonard Bloomfield, US linguist   

Apr 02   On this day in history juneau Alaska the US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific (boy they sure pick on us)   

Apr 04   In the year 1887 susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)   

Apr 04   Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) in the year 1887.   

Apr 05   On this day in history anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller   

Apr 08   Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl) on this day in history.   

Apr 10   Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947) in the year 1887.   

Apr 10   President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Apr 12   Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo in the year 1887.   

Apr 14   In the year 1887 start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)   

Apr 21   On this day in history lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer   

Apr 26   In the year 1887 cardston, Alberta Joseph Ora Card and a small group of Mormons found the community that will become Cardston, Alberta;   

Apr 26   On this day in history huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity   

Apr 26   Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity in the year 1887.   

Apr 28   In the year 1887 carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67   

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

Apr 30   In the year 1887 friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71   

May 01   On this day in history 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) on this day in history.   

May 02   In the year 1887 g Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence   

May 02   On this day in history hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film   

May 03   In the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault in the year 1887.   

May 05   Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA in the year 1887.   

May 07   In the year 1887 henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)   

May 08   Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar in the year 1887.   

May 09   Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London in the year 1887.   

May 09   Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer on this day in history.   

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Jan 01   Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 10   Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea) was born in the year 1887.   

Jan 11   Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) was born in the year 1887.   

Jan 13   In the year 1887 birth of george Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)   

Jan 16   On this day in history birth of john Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)   

Jan 17   In the year 1887 birth of ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)   

Jan 01   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 in the year 1887.   

Jan 07   In the year 1887 abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74   

Jan 14   In the year 1887 friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83   

Jan 17   William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) died in the year 1887.   

Feb 10   In the year 1887 ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73   

Feb 15   On this day in history alexander Borodin, composer, dies   

Feb 19   On this day in history eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66   

Feb 27   On this day in history alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53