Important Events
- Mar 3 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
- Sep 28 Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history
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1887 in Music
- Feb 5 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi's first new opera for over 15 years
Did You Know?
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
On February 2, 1887
Bernard Montgomery
Chiang Kai-shek
Eddie Collins
Erwin Schrödinger
Jim Thorpe
Walter JohnsonWorld Leaders in 1887
Grover Cleveland
US President- Otto von Bismarck
German Statesman - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
British Prime Minister
Grover Cleveland
Otto von Bismarck
Robert Gascoyne-CecilFamous People in 1887
- Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter - Giuseppe Verdi
Composer - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWould You Believe?
In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, being 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
On January 28, 1887
Famous Weddings
- Apr 22 Business magnate Andrew Carnegie (51) weds Louise Whitfield (30) in NYC, New York
- Nov 2 Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan
- Nov 9 Painter Grandma Moses (27) weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
Doc Holliday
Dorothea Dix
Emma LazarusArticles and Photos
World's First Motor Race
It was hardly the stuff of today's adrenalin-pumping Formula 1 match ups, but on this day two men climbed aboard their machine for "the world’s first motor race”.
April 20, 1887How the First Sherlock Holmes Story was Sold for a Song
How did an English publisher most famous for giving the world Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management come to publish the first Sherlock Holmes story?
December 1, 1887
