1887
Year 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar ).
Events of 1887
January - March
January 24 - Battle of Dogali : Abyssinian troops defeat Italians .
January 28 - In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana , USA , the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38cm) wide and 8 inches (20cm) thick.
February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania , the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 5 - The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala .
February 8 - Dawes Act , or General Allotment Act, is enacted.
February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake , killing around 2,000 along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea .
February 26 - At the SCG , George Lohmann becomes the first bowler to take eight wickets in a Test innings.
March 3 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller .
March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile .
March 7 - North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
March 13 - Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs .
March 19 - Henry Cogswell College established by Henry D. Cogswell .
April - June
July - September
October - December
October 1 - British Empire takes over Balochistan .
November - Results of the Michelson-Morley experiment are published, indicating that the speed of light is independent of motion.
November 3 - Associação Académica de Coimbra , students' union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal , is founded.
November 10 - Louis Lingg , sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket Riot bomb, kills himself by dynamite .
November 11 - August Spies , Albert Parsons , Adolph Fischer , George Engel , Michael Schwab , and Samuel Fielden hanged for inciting riot and murder in the Haymarket Riot of May 4 , 1886 .
November 13 - Bloody Sunday . Police clash with pro-Irish independence protesters.
Undated
Yellow River flood kills 900,000 people living along its banks.
Births
January - June
January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris , head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945 )
January 3 - August Macke , German painter (d. 1914 )
January 10 - Robinson Jeffers , American poet (d. 1962 )
January 19 - Alexander Woollcott , American intellectual (d. 1943 )
January 21 - Maude Davis , Oldest Person in the World (d. 2002 )
January 22 - Helen Hoyt , American poet (d. 1972 )
January 23 - Dorothy Payne Whitney , American-born philanthropist and social activist (d. 1968 )
January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein , Polish-born pianist and conductor (d. 1982 )
February 1 - Charles Nordhoff , English-born author (d. 1947 )
February 2 - Pat Sullivan , Australian director and producer of animated films (d. 1933 )
February 3 - Georg Trakl , Austrian poet (d. 1914 )
February 4 - Sheila Kaye-Smith , English writer (d. 1955 )
February 6 - Josef Frings , Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978 )
February 10 - John Franklin Enders , American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1985 )
February 11
February 17 - Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer (d. 1947 )
February 20 - Vincent Massey , Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967 )
February 26
March 4 - Violet MacMillan , American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953 )
March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (d. 1959 )
March 9 - Phil Mead , English cricketer (d. 1958 )
March 14 - Sylvia Beach , American publisher in Paris (d. 1952 )
March 14 - Charles Reisner , American silent actor and film director (d. 1962 )
March 22 - Chico Marx , American comedian and actor (d. 1961 )
March 23 - Juan Gris , Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927 )
March 23 - Prince Felix Yussupov , Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967 )
March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle , American actor (d. 1933 )
April 10 - Bernardo Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971 )
April 15 - Mike Brady , American golfer (d. 1972 )
May 2 - Eddie Collins , baseball player (d. 1951 )
May 5 - Geoffrey Fisher , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972 )
May 10 - Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha , 40th master of Oveyssi Sufi order (d. 1962 )
May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian-born pianist (d. 1951 )
May 25 - Pio of Pietrelcina , Italian saint (d. 1968 )
May 26 - Paul Lukas , Hungarian-born actor (d. 1971 )
May 31 - Saint-John Perse , French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
June 2 - Orrick Johns , American poet and playwright (d. 1946 )
June 22 - Julian Huxley , British biologist (d. 1975 )
June 25 - George Abbott , American playwright (d. 1995 )
July - December
July 7 - Marc Chagall , Russian-born painter (d. 1985 )
July 16 - Shoeless Joe Jackson , baseball player (d. 1951 )
July 18 - Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian politician and traitor (d. 1945 )
July 22 - Gustav Hertz , German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975 )
July 28 - Marcel Duchamp , French-born artist (d. 1968 )
July 29 - Sigmund Romberg , Hungarian-born composer (d. 1951 )
August 3 - Rupert Brooke , British war poet (d. 1915 )
August 12 - Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961 )
August 13 - Julius Freed , American inventor and banker (d. 1952 )
August 15 - Edna Ferber , American novelist (d. 1968 )
August 17
August 24 - Harry Hooper , baseball player (d. 1974 )
September 1 - Blaise Cendrars , Swiss writer (d. 1961 )
September 3 - Frank Christian , American jazz musician (d. 1973 )
September 13
September 16 - Nadia Boulanger , French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979 )
September 26 - Edwin Keppel Bennett , British writer (d. 1958 )
September 28 - Avery Brundage , American sports official (d. 1975 )
October 1 - Violet Jessop , RMS Titanic survivor (d. 1971 )
October 5 - René Cassin , French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1976 )
October 6 - Le Corbusier , Swiss architect (d. 1965 )
October 8 - Huntley Gordon , Canadian-born actor (d. 1956 )
October 22 - John Reed , American journalist (d. 1920 )
October 31 - Chiang Kai-shek , 1st ? 5th President of the Republic of China (d. 1975 )
November 1 - L. S. Lowry , English painter (d.1976 )
November 6 - Walter Johnson , baseball player (d. 1946 )
November 10 - Arnold Zweig , German writer (d. 1968 )
November 15 - Georgia O'Keeffe , American Woman Painter (d.1986 )
November 17 - Bernard Montgomery , World War II British commander (d. 1976 )
November 19 - James B. Sumner , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955 )
November 23 - Boris Karloff , English actor (d. 1967 )
December 12 - Kurt Atterberg , Swedish composer (d. 1974 )
December 13 - Alvin Cullum York , American war hero during World War I (d. 1964 )
December 22 - Srinivasa Aaiyangar Ramanujan , Indian mathematician (d. 1920 )
date unknown - Pauline Sabin , American activist for repeal of prohibition in U.S. (d. 1955 )
Deaths
January - June
February 26 - Anandi Gopal Joshi , first Indian woman doctor (b. 1865 )
February 27 - Alexander Borodin , Russian composer (b. 1833 )
March 8 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (b. 1813 )
March 24 - Ivan Kramskoi , painter (b. 1837 )
March 28 - Ditlev Gothard Monrad , Danish politician (b. 1811 )
April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes , Welsh poet (b. 1832 )
May 8 - Aleksandr Ulyanov , Russian revolutionary, brother of V. I. Lenin (b. 1866 )
May 14 - Lysander Spooner , American philosopher and abolitionist (b. 1808 )
June 10 - Richard Lindon , Inventor of the Rugby Ball, the India-rubber inflatable bladder and the Brass Hand Pump for the same (b. 1816 )
July - December
July 8 - John Wright Oakes , Landscape painter (b. 1820 )
July 17 - Dorothea Dix , American social activist (b. 1802 )
July 25 - John Taylor , American religious leader (b. 1808 )
August 8 - Alexander William Doniphan , American lawyer and soldier (b. 1808 )
August 19 - Alvan Clark , telescope manufacturer (b. 1804 )
August 20 - Jules Laforgue , French poet (b. 1860 )
October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff , German physicist (b. 1824 )
October 21 - Bernard Jauréguiberry , admiral (b. 1815 )
November 2 - Jenny Lind , Swedish soprano (b. 1820 )
November 8 - Doc Holliday , American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851 )
November 19 - Emma Lazarus , American poet (b. 1859 )
November 28 - Gustav Fechner , experimental psychologist (b. 1801 )
December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow , American poet (b. 1804 )
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