1887

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s - 1880s - 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

Years: 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 - 1887 - 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892

This is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar)

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Table of contents

1 Events:
2 Births:
3 Deaths:
4 Heads of State

Events:

January 1 - Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India
January 20 - The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
January 21 - The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed
January 26 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat Italians
February 23 - The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
February 2 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile
April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna Madora Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 28 - Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
July 26 - L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Dr. Esperanto's International Language.
July 27 - Giuseppe Peano marries Carola Crosio
L. L. Zamenhof completes the creation of the initial version of Esperanto.
U.S. National Institutes of Health founded
Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world
Michelson-Morley experiment was performed
Gramophone patented by Emile Berliner
The New Gate was built in Jerusalem.
Comptometer patented by Dorr Eugene Felt

Births:

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

Deaths:

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

Heads of State

China - GuāngxÃÂÃÂ¹ Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (1875-1908)
Denmark - Christian IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
France -
1. Jules GrÃÂÃÂ©vy, President of France (1879-1887)
2. Marie FranÃÂÃÂ§ois Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-1894)
Germany - Wilhelm I, German Kaiser (1871-1888)
Holy See - Pope Leo XIII, Bishop of Rome (1878-1903)
Japan - Mutsuhito, Meiji emperor (1867-1912)
Norway - Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway (1872-1905)
Ottoman Empire - Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1876-1909)
Russia - Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (1881-1894)
Spain - Alfonso XIII of Spain, King of Spain (1886-1931)
United States - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (1885-1889)