Historical 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?
Did You Know?First Groundhog Day observed at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
On February 2, 1887
Jim Thorpe
Erwin Schrödinger
Chiang Kai-shek
Walter Johnson
Georgia O’Keeffe
Bernard MontgomeryFamous People in 1887
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWorld Leaders in 1887
Grover Cleveland
Otto von Bismarck
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
Would 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 Anna Mary Robertson (27), later to become painter known as Grandma Moses, weds Thomas Salmon Moses in New York
Dorothea Dix
Doc Holliday
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 20How 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
