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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Mar 30   Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great) in the year 1887.  

Mar 31   Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer in the year 1887.  

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

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

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

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

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

Apr 08   Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl) in the year 1887.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

Apr 21   In the year 1887 lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer  

Apr 26   Cardston, Alberta Joseph Ora Card and a small group of Mormons found the community that will become Cardston, Alberta; on this day in history.  

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

Apr 26   Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71  

May 01   In the year 1887 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   G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence in the year 1887.  

May 02   Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film on this day in history.  

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) on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1887.  

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 in the year 1887.  

Jan 10   On this day in history birth of robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)  

Jan 11   Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

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

Jan 14   Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

Jan 17   On this day in history death of william Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)  

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   Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 in the year 1887.  

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