Page 4: Historical Events In 1887

Mar 24   In the year 1887 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   On this day in history ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75   

Mar 28   On this day in history rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer   

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

Mar 31   Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

Apr 04   Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS) on this day in history.   

Apr 05   In the year 1887 anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller   

Apr 08   Walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl) on this day in history.   

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

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

Apr 11   Pyotr Petrovich Sokal'sky, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 14   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG) on this day in history.   

Apr 21   On this day in history 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   In the year 1887 huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity   

Apr 26   On this day in history huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity   

Apr 28   On this day in history carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67   

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   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) in the year 1887.   

May 02   G Rossini's corpse transfered to Santa Croce, Florence on this day in history.   

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   Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   In the year 1887 birth of helen Parkhurst, US educator (Education on the Dalton plan)   

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 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 13   George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949) was born in the year 1887.   

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

Jan 17   On this day in history birth of ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)   

Jan 01   On this day in history johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66   

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

Jan 14   On this day in history friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83   

Jan 17   William Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840) died in the year 1887.   

Feb 10   Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 in the year 1887.   

Feb 15   On this day in history alexander Borodin, composer, dies   

Feb 19   In the year 1887 eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66   

Feb 27   Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53 in the year 1887.