1887 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1887?
- January 20, 1887 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
- January 21, 1887 – 465 mm of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
- January 28, 1887 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world’s largest snowflakes are reported, 15 in wide and 8 in thick.
- February 2, 1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
- February 8, 1887 – The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
- February 23, 1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
- April 1, 1887 – Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
- April 4, 1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 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.
- May 9, 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opens in London.
- 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.
- June 20, 1887 – Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
- June 23, 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
- July 6, 1887 – David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
- July 26, 1887 – Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
- September 5, 1887 – Fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England killed 186
- November 11, 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
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