Important Events in 1887
- 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?In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
On February 2, 1887
Bernard Montgomery
Chiang Kai-shek
Erwin Schrödinger
Georgia O’Keeffe
Jim Thorpe
Walter JohnsonFamous People in 1887
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter- Giuseppe Verdi
Composer - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWorld 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-CecilWould 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 in 1887
- 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
Doc Holliday
Dorothea Dix
Emma Lazarus1887 in Articles 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
