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Events on the year of 1887 in history

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04 Jan 1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
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05 Jan 1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
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16 Jan 1887 Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes
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20 Jan 1887 The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
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20 Jan 1887 US Senate approves the naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
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21 Jan 1887 A total of 465 millimetres (18.3 in) rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.
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21 Jan 1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
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26 Jan 1887 Battle of Dogali Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians
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28 Jan 1887 In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the world's largest snowflakes are reported, 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
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28 Jan 1887 England all out for 45 vs Australia SCG, their lowest total ever
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01 Feb 1887 Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
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02 Feb 1887 In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
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03 Feb 1887 To avoid disputed National elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
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04 Feb 1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
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05 Feb 1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
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08 Feb 1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
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08 Feb 1887 Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship)
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08 Feb 1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
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14 Feb 1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
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16 Feb 1887 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
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16 Feb 1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
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20 Feb 1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
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20 Feb 1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
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21 Feb 1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday
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21 Feb 1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
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22 Feb 1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
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23 Feb 1887 The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
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23 Feb 1887 Congress grants Seal Rocks to San Francisco
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23 Feb 1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die
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26 Feb 1887 George Lohmann took 1st 8-wicket haul in Test Crickets, 8-35 at SCG
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02 Mar 1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit
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03 Mar 1887 American Protective Association forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton, Iowa
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03 Mar 1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
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08 Mar 1887 Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
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13 Mar 1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
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15 Mar 1887 1st salaried fish and game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
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15 Mar 1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
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24 Mar 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
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01 Apr 1887 Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
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04 Apr 1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
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04 Apr 1887 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
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05 Apr 1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
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10 Apr 1887 On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
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10 Apr 1887 President Abraham Lincoln is re-buried with his wife in Springfield IL
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10 Apr 1887 Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
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12 Apr 1887 Henrik Ibsen's "Rosmersholm", premieres in Oslo
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14 Apr 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
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26 Apr 1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
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26 Apr 1887 Huntsville Electric Company is established to sell electricity
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28 Apr 1887 A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
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30 Apr 1887 1st game played at Broad and Huntingdon St. Park (Baker Bowl) in Philadelphia; Phillies beat Giants 19-10
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02 May 1887 Hannibal W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
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09 May 1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
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11 May 1887 13th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Lewis aboard Montrose wins in 2:39
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13 May 1887 15th Preakness: William Donohue aboard Dunboyne wins in 2:39
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18 May 1887 Emmanuel Chabriers opera "Le Roi Malgr
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23 May 1887 1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver British Columbia
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24 May 1887 Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants East African Association at East African harbors
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25 May 1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
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26 May 1887 Racetrack betting becomes legal in New York state
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07 Jun 1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Washington DC
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08 Jun 1887 Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' – his punched card calculator.
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15 Jun 1887 Carlisle D Graham survives 2nd ride in Niagara waterfall in barrel
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15 Jun 1887 New York Giants beat Philadelphia Phillies 29-1
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15 Jun 1887 NY Giants beat Phila Phillies 29-1
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18 Jun 1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
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20 Jun 1887 Victoria Terminus, the busiest railway station in India, opens in Bombay.
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21 Jun 1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria
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23 Jun 1887 The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
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28 Jun 1887 Phillies most lopsided shut-out beating Indianapolis 24-0
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04 Jul 1887 The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
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06 Jul 1887 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (62 60)
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06 Jul 1887 David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint by Americans to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights.
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26 Jul 1887 Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
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26 Jul 1887 1st Esperanto book published
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28 Jul 1887 New York Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs
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02 Aug 1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
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10 Aug 1887 Excursion train crashes killing 101. (Chatsworth, Illinois)
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21 Aug 1887 Mighty (Dan) Casey Struck-out in a game with the NY Giants!
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31 Aug 1887 Thomas A Edison patents Kinetoscope, (produces moving pictures)
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01 Sep 1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
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05 Sep 1887 Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200
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05 Sep 1887 A fire at Theatre Royal in Exeter, England kills 186.
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15 Sep 1887 Philadelphia celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
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26 Sep 1887 Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone
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28 Sep 1887 Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million
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30 Sep 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure "Five Orange Pips" (BG)
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30 Sep 1887 Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure "The Five Orange Pips" (BG)
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30 Sep 1887 Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America's Cup
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01 Oct 1887 Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
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08 Oct 1887 Phillies set club record 16th straight victory
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11 Oct 1887 A Miles patents elevator
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18 Oct 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "A Case of Identity" (BG)
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21 Oct 1887 Detroit clinches best-of-15 touring World Championship with its 8th victory in Game 11 this afternoon in Baltimore, 13-3
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26 Oct 1887 Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in the World Series
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05 Nov 1887 Ottawa College (ORFU) defeats Montreal Football Club (QRFU) 10-5 to win the Dominion championship
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15 Nov 1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
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19 Nov 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
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23 Nov 1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
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23 Nov 1887 The opera "The Trumpeter of Suckingen" 1st American production (NYC)
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29 Nov 1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
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30 Nov 1887 1st indoor softball game (Chicago)
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01 Dec 1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
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10 Dec 1887 Austria-Hungary / Italy / Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
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17 Dec 1887 Georges Feydeaus' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
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19 Dec 1887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
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27 Dec 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
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27 Dec 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
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28 Dec 1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
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