Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

Mar 24   Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) in the year 1887.   

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   On this day in history rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer   

Mar 30   Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) on this day in history.   

Mar 31   In the year 1887 jose Maria Usandizaga, composer   

Apr 01   Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist in the year 1887.   

Apr 02   In the year 1887 juneau Alaska the US seizes Canadian sealing ships in North Pacific (boy they sure pick on us)   

Apr 04   On this day in history susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)   

Apr 04   Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) on this day in history.   

Apr 05   In the year 1887 anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller   

Apr 08   In the year 1887 walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)   

Apr 10   On this day in history bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)   

Apr 10   On this day in history president Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il   

Apr 11   On this day in history pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54   

Apr 12   On this day in history henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo   

Apr 14   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG) on this day in history.   

Apr 21   In the year 1887 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   In the year 1887 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   1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10 on this day in history.   

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

May 01   Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) on this day in history.   

May 02   Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's) in the year 1887.   

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

May 02   Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film in the year 1887.   

May 03   On this day in history in the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault   

May 05   In the year 1887 estelle Hemsley, Boston MA   

May 07   Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) on this day in history.   

May 08   Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar on this day in history.   

May 09   On this day in history buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.   

May 09   Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer in the year 1887.   

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Jan 01   In the year 1887 birth of wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)   

Jan 03   In the year 1887 birth of august Macke, German painter (d. 1914)   

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

Jan 11   On this day in history birth of aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)   

Jan 13   George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 16   John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman) was born in the year 1887.   

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)   

Jan 01   On this day in history johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66   

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

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

Jan 17   In the year 1887 death of william Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)   

Feb 10   Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 in the year 1887.   

Feb 15   Alexander Borodin, composer, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 19   In the year 1887 eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66   

Feb 27   Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.