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 in the year 1887.   

Mar 28   Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75 in the year 1887.   

Mar 28   Rudolf F W Boskaljon, Curacao, musician/composer on this day in history.   

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   In the year 1887 leonard Bloomfield, US linguist   

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

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

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   In the year 1887 walter Connolly, Cincinnati OH, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)   

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

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 in the year 1887.   

Apr 12   On this day in history henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm," premieres in Oslo   

Apr 14   On this day in history start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)   

Apr 21   In the year 1887 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   Huntsville Electric Co established to sell electricity on this day in history.   

Apr 26   In the year 1887 huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity   

Apr 28   In the year 1887 carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67   

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

Apr 30   On this day in history friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71   

May 01   On this day in history alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48)   

May 02   In the year 1887 edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame baseball infielder (White Sox, A's)   

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   In the year 1887 in the Sonora, Mexico region a 7.4 earthquake ruptured the Pitaycachi fault   

May 05   In the year 1887 estelle Hemsley, Boston MA   

May 07   Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes) on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1887.   

May 09   In the year 1887 jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer   

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Jan 01   Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of august Macke, German painter (d. 1914)   

Jan 10   In the year 1887 birth of robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)   

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   On this day in history birth of john Hamilton, Penn, actor (Perry White-Superman)   

Jan 17   In the year 1887 birth of ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)   

Jan 01   Johan Hendrik Koelman, portrait painter, dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Jan 07   On this day in history abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor/director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74   

Jan 14   Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83 on this day in history.   

Jan 17   In the year 1887 death of william Giblin, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)   

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

Feb 15   In the year 1887 alexander Borodin, composer, dies   

Feb 19   Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 on this day in history.   

Feb 27   On this day in history alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53