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   Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer in the year 1887.  

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

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

Apr 01   Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history 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   Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller on this day in history.  

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

Apr 10   Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947) on this day in history.  

Apr 10   In the year 1887 president Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il  

Apr 11   In the year 1887 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   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   Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity in the year 1887.  

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

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   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   On this day in history g Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence  

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 on this day in history.  

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   On this day in history alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar  

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

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

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

Jan 01   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 on this day in history.  

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

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

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   In the year 1887 alexander Borodin, composer, dies  

Feb 19   Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 on this day in history.  

Feb 27   In the year 1887 alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53