Page 6: Historical Events In 1887

Jun 21   Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria   

Jun 22   Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist (Uprising and Remorse)   

Jun 23   Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag).   

Jun 25   George Abbott, Forestville NY, producer (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game).   

Jun 26   Anthony G de Rothschild, Britain, philanthropist   

Jun 28   Boleslav Vomacka, composer   

Jun 28   Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0   

Jul 01   Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)   

Jul 02   Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)   

Jul 04   The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi   

Jul 05   August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies.   

Jul 06   4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)   

Jul 07   Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises).   

Jul 09   Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)   

Jul 09   The inaugural paper napkins are introduced at a dinner at a British hotel by John Dickenson, a stationery manufacturer   

Jul 10   Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer.   

Jul 16   "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe).   

Jul 16   Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73   

Jul 18   Vidkun Al Quisling, Norwegian minister of Defense/premier (1942-45)   

Jul 20   Willem H Drucker, Dutch lawyer.   

Jul 22   Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925).   

Jul 26   1st Esperanto book published   

Jul 26   The inaugural Esperanto book published.   

Jul 28   Marcel Duchamp, French artist is born   

Jul 28   Marcel Duchamp, French painter (Nude Descending a Staircase)   

Jul 29   Rudi Stephan, composer.   

Jul 30   Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity).   

Aug 02   Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire.   

Aug 03   Rupert Brooke, British WW I poet (1914)   

Aug 05   Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead Engld, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes).   

Aug 07   Jan HA Eman, Aruban politician.   

Aug 08   Esme Percy, London England, actor (Old Spanish Custom).   

Aug 09   Abraham Schierbeek, Dutch biologist (Swammerdam)   

Aug 10   Excursion train crashes killing 101 in Chatsworth, Illinois.   

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Jan 01   Wilhelm canaris: German admiral/head german military intelligence   

Jan 03   Helen parkhurst: Us educator (education on the dalton plan)   

Jan 03   August macke: German painter   

Jan 10   Robinson jeffers: Us, poet/playwright (tamar & other poems, medea)   

Jan 11   Aldo leopold: Founder (wilderness society)   

Jan 13   George gurdjieff: Armenian-greek mystic    

Jan 16   John hamilton: Penn, actor (perry white-superman)   

Jan 17   Ola raknes: Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist   

Jan 01   Johan hendrik koelman: Portrait painter,    

Jan 07   Abraham i van lier: Dutch actor/director (gran theatre),   

Jan 14   Friedrich von amerling: Austrian painter,   

Jan 17   William giblin: Premier of tasmania (b. 1840)   

Feb 10   Ellen wood: English author (pomeroy abbey),    

Feb 15   Alexander borodin: Composer,   

Feb 19   Eduard douwes dekker: Dutch writer (max havelaar),   

Feb 27   Alexander porfir'yevich borodin: Russian composer,