1887

1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). {| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 \n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s \n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.\n* January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed\n* January 26 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians\n* February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.\n* February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.\n* March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile\n* April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.\n* April 20 – George Bouton wins the world’s first motor racing contest – he is the only participant\n* May 3 – Earthquake in Sonora, Mexico\n* May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.\n* June 8 - Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his punch card calculator.\n* June 23 - The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park. [1]\n* June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.\n* July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language.\n* July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio\n* November – In London, police and left-wing demonstrators clash. One dead. One of the participants is George Bernard Shaw. \n* L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto.\n* U.S. National Institutes of Health founded\n* Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world\n* Michelson-Morley experiment was performed\n* Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner\n* The New Gate is built in Jerusalem.\n* Comptometer patented by Dorr Eugene Felt\n* The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals are held\n* Suez Canal is declared neutral\n* Japan annexes Iwo Jima\n* Zululand becomes a British colony\n* Yellow river floods in China – 900.000 dead\n* British nurses association organized\n* Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn founded\n* Spandau prison in Berlin finished\n* Portugal abolishes death penalty for murder

Births

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

Deaths

\n* February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer\n* October 17 - Gustav Kirchhoff, physicist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n