1887 Calendar
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1887 Historical Event(s)
February 23, 1887
– The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
April 10, 1887
– On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
April 28, 1887
– A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, defusing a possible war.
June 8, 1887
– Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the ‘Art of Applying Statistics’– his punched card calculator.
June 18, 1887
– The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
September 5, 1887
– Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
October 1, 1887
– Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
November 9, 1887
– The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 11, 1887
– Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
November 13, 1887
– Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Who Were Born On 1887?
February 26, 1887
– Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (d. 1950)
March 14, 1887
– Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
April 12, 1887
– Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
May 30, 1887
– Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian artist (d. 1964)
August 20, 1887
– Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (d. 1959)
September 3, 1887
– Frank Christian, American trumpeter (d. 1973)
September 9, 1887
– Alf Landon, American politician (d. 1987)
October 22, 1887
– John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
November 19, 1887
– James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
December 26, 1887
– Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966)