Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

Mar 24   Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies) on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 28   Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer in the year 1887.   

Mar 30   In the year 1887 albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)   

Mar 31   In the year 1887 jose Maria Usandizaga, composer   

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

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

Apr 04   In the year 1887 susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia KS)   

Apr 04   On this day in history susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)   

Apr 05   Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller in the year 1887.   

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

Apr 10   Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947) in the year 1887.   

Apr 10   On this day in history president Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il   

Apr 11   On this day in history pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54   

Apr 12   In the year 1887 henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo   

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

Apr 21   Lillian Walker, Brooklyn NY, entertainer in the year 1887.   

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   In the year 1887 huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity   

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

Apr 28   Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67 in the year 1887.   

Apr 30   In the year 1887 1st game played at Broad & Huntingdon St Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10   

Apr 30   Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1887.   

May 01   Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) in the year 1887.   

May 02   Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's) on this day in history.   

May 02   In the year 1887 g Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence   

May 02   Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film in the year 1887.   

May 03   On this day in history in the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault   

May 05   Estelle Hemsley, Boston MA on this day in history.   

May 07   Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) in the year 1887.   

May 08   In the year 1887 alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar   

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   In the year 1887 birth of wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence   

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   In the year 1887 birth of robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)   

Jan 11   In the year 1887 birth of aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)   

Jan 13   On this day in history birth of george Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)   

Jan 16   John Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman) was born in the year 1887.   

Jan 17   Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 in the year 1887.   

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

Jan 14   In the year 1887 friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83   

Jan 17   William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) died on this day in history.   

Feb 10   On this day in history ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73   

Feb 15   Alexander Borodin, composer, dies on this day in history.   

Feb 19   Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 in the year 1887.   

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