Major 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
1887 in Sport
- Apr 28 "Europe's first motoring competition" is 'won' by The Marquis de Dion on a steam-powered quadricycle built by French toymaker and engineer Georges Bouton; French newspaper Le Velocipede organized the 'test', and Bouton was the only participant
Did You Know?
First Groundhog Day observed at Gobbler's Knob, Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Vidkun Quisling
Erwin Schrödinger
Marcus Garvey
Chiang Kai-shek
Georgia O'Keeffe
Bernard Montgomery
Georges Vezina
François Faber
Joe McCarthy
Eddie Collins
Jim Thorpe
Walter JohnsonMore People Born in 1887
Fun Fact About 1887
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
Dorothea Dix
Agostino Depretis
Doc Holliday
Emma LazarusMore 1887 Deaths
Articles About 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
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
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
Claude Monet
Giuseppe Verdi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Grover Cleveland
Otto von Bismarck
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil