1887

1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar).

Years: 1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1887 in art 1887 in literature 1887 in music 1887 in science 1887 in sports List of state leaders in 1887 List of religious leaders in 1887

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed
• January 26 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians
• February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
• February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
• March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile
• April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
• April 20 – George Bouton wins the world’s first motor racing contest – he is the only participant
• May 3 – Earthquake in Sonora, Mexico
• May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
• June 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.
• June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [1]
• June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
• July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
• July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
• November – In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw.

• L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto
• U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
• Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
• Michelson-Morley experiment was performed
• Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
• The New Gate is built in Jerusalem
• Comptometer patented by Dorr Eugene Felt
• The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held
• Suez Canal is declared neutral
• Japan annexes Iwo Jima
• Zululand becomes a British colony
• Yellow river floods in China – 900.000 dead
• British nurses association organized
• Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn founded
• Spandau prison in Berlin finished
• Portugal abolishes death penalty for murder

Births

• January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, later head of German Abwehr
• January 3 - August Macke, painter (d. 1914)
• January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, intellectual (d. 1943)
• January 21 - Maude Davis, later Oldest Person in the World (d. 2002)
• January 28 - Artur Rubinstein, musician, conductor (d. 1982)
• February 1 - Charles Nordhoff, author (d. 1947)
• February 2 - Pat Sullivan, Australian director and producer of animated films, alleged co-creator of Felix the Cat
• February 3 - Georg Trakl, poet (d. 1914)
• February 6 - Josef Frings, archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
• February 11 - Ernst Hanfstängl German/US pianist/politician.
• February 11 - John van Melle South African writer
• February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (d. 1957)
• February 20 - Carl Ebert, opera manager and director (d. 1980)
• February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
• February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
• March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet
• March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
• March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher
• March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian, actor (d. 1961)
• March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
• March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov, assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)
• March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (d. 1933)
• May 2 - Eddie Collins, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
• May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist
• May 26 - Paul Lukas, actor (d. 1971)
• May 28 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (d. 1953)
• June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright
• June 22 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
• July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
• July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (d. 1951)
• August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist
• August 17 - Emperor Karl of Austria
• August 17 - Marcus Mosiah Garvey, publisher, entrepreneur, black nationalist (d. 1940)
• September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, writer
• September 3 - Frank Christian, jazz musician (d. 1973)
• September 16 - Kamato Hongo, later Oldest Person in the World.
• September 28 - Avery Brundage, American sports official
• October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
• October 8 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor (d. 1956)
• October 22 - John Reed, journalist (d. 1920)
• November 6 - Walter Johnson, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1946)
• November 10 - Arnold Zweig, German writer (d. 1968)
• November 17 - Bernard Montgomery, famous WWII British commander
• December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer
• December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan, Indian mathematician

Deaths

• February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
• October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist