What happened in the United States in 1887. . I don’t know about that big event~~~~There are also the births or deaths of some celebrities...
January 11th - Dr. Joseph of the French Academy of Medical Sciences who defended Louis Pasteur’s anti-rabies treatment Grancher.
January 20 - The U.S. Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) was formed on January 21. Brisbane received the most daily rainfall of any Chinese capital - a record 465mm.
March 3: Helen Keller and Sullivan.
January 24 - Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian troops defeat the Italians.
January 28 - Report of the largest snowflake recorded at Blizzard Fort Keough, Montana, USA. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
January 28 - Construction of the Eiffel Tower's infrastructure begins in Paris, France.
February 2 - Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, first observed Groundhog Day.
February 4 - The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, passed by the 49th United States Congress and signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
February 5 - Verdi's opera "Otello" premiered at La Scala.
February 8 - The Dawes Act, or the General Quota Act, enacts this law.
February 23 - A massive earthquake hits the French Riviera region, killing about 2,000 people along the Mediterranean coast.
February 26 - George Roman became the first bowler to take eight wickets in the Test innings at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The famous William Frawley was born.
March 3 - Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
March 4 - Gottlieb Daimler unveiled his first car.
March 7 - North Carolina State University, North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts is established.
March 13 - Greenwood patent earmuffs in Chester.
March 19 - Henry Cogswell College is founded by Henry D. Cogswell.
March 4: Daimler
[edit] April to June
April 1 - Bombay Fire Brigade is established.
April 4 - Argonia, Kansas elects Suzanne M. Salter, the first female mayor in the United States.
April 10 - The Catholic University of America is founded on Easter Sunday.
April 21 - Schnaebele Incident - An incident on the French/German border almost led to war between the two countries.
April 20 - Occidental College was established.
May 3 - Earthquake hits Sonora, Mexico.
May 9 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Exhibition opens in London.
May 14 - The cornerstone of the new Stanford University in northern California is laid (the college was founded in 1891).
June 8 - Herman Hollerith receives the patent for his punched card calculator.
June 18 - Reinsurance Treaty, closed between Germany and Russia.
June 21 - The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, marking her 50th year on the throne. [ 1 ]
June 23 - The Rocky Mountain Parks Act becomes law in Canada, establishing the country's first national park, Banff National Park. [ 2 ]
June 28 - Minot, a city incorporated in North Dakota.
June 23: Banff National Park.
June 29 - The National Retail Federation was established in Brisbane.
[edit]July
July 1 - Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower begins in Paris, France
July 6 - The anti-monarchist Hawaiian King Kalakaua was forced to sign the "Bayonet Constitution," stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, as well as disfranchising the most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.
July 12 - Odense, the Danish football team, the club football team is founded as the Odense Cricket Club.
July 19 - Eugene Dole receives the first U.S. patent for his comptometer. [ 3 ]
July 26 - Blackpool FC was founded in England.
August - The earliest component of the NIH is established at the Naval Hospital, Staten Island, Laboratory of Health.
August 13 - Centenary Scotland defeated Preston England as both teams won the 'World Championship' in their respective countries' Football Association Cup competition.
September 5 - The Theater Royal, Exeter, England, burned down, killing 186 people.
September 28 - Begins the 1887 Yellow River Flood in China, killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 people.
July 26: Esperanto
[edit]October
October 1 - British Empire takeover of Balochistan.
In Tallahassee, Florida, October 3 - Florida A&M University opens its doors.
The results of the Michelson-Morley experiment were announced in November, indicating independent motion at the speed of light. Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published on the Christmas anniversary of Beaton.
November 3 - Associa?o Academica Coimbra, the student union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal is founded.
November 8 - Emile Berlin is granted a patent for his phonograph.
November 10 - Louis Lingg, sentenced to hanging, accused of using explosives to kill himself during the Haymarket Riot.
November 11 - August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolf Fischer, George Engel, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden at the Haymarket Riot He was hanged on May 4, 1886 for inciting riots and murder.
November 13 - Bloody Sunday: Pro-Irish independence demonstrators clashed with police.
November: Michelson Morey.
December 5 - International Intellectual Property Office.
December 25 - Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch Whiskey No. 1.