Significant 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
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
World Leaders in 1887
Grover Cleveland
US President
Otto von Bismarck
German Statesman
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil
British Prime Minister
Famous People in 1887
Claude Monet
Impressionist Painter
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer
Bernard Montgomery
Chiang Kai-shek
Eddie Collins
Erwin Schrödinger
Jim Thorpe
Walter JohnsonWould 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
Emma LazarusArticles on Events in 1887
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, 1887
How 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