Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

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

Mar 24   The birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor in the year 1887.   

Mar 28   In the year 1887 ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75   

Mar 28   On this day in history 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   Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer in the year 1887.   

Apr 01   On this day in history 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   In the year 1887 susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)   

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

Apr 14   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG) in the year 1887.   

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   In the year 1887 huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity   

Apr 28   On this day in history 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 in the year 1887.   

Apr 30   Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1887.   

May 01   Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) in the year 1887.   

May 02   Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's) on this day in history.   

May 02   G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence on this day in history.   

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   Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) in the year 1887.   

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

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

May 09   On this day in history jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer   

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Jan 01   Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence was born in the year 1887.   

Jan 03   Helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan) was born in the year 1887.   

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

Jan 10   In the year 1887 birth of robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)   

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

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of george Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)   

Jan 16   In the year 1887 birth of john Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)   

Jan 17   Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) was born in the year 1887.   

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

Jan 07   Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 17   William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) died on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Feb 15   In the year 1887 alexander Borodin, composer, dies   

Feb 19   On this day in history 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.