1887 in the United States

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Events from the year 1887 in the United States.

Incumbents[]

Federal Government[]

  • President: Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
  • Vice President: vacant
  • Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (Ohio)
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
  • Congress: 49th (until March 4), 50th (starting March 4)

Events[]

  • January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
  • January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.[citation needed]
  • February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
  • February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act, passed by Congress, is signed into law, with the intention of regulating the railroad industry.
  • February 8 – The Dawes Act is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
  • February – The Atlanta Cyclorama is first displayed in Detroit as "Logan's Great Battle".
  • March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
  • March 7 – North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
  • March 19 – Cogswell College is established as a high school by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell in San Francisco, the first technical training institution in the West (the school opens in 1888).
  • April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the U.S.
  • May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
  • June 28 – Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
  • July 10 – The Grand Hotel opens in Mackinac, Michigan.
  • August – The U.S. National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, New York, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
  • October 14 – Pomona College is founded in Claremont, California.

Undated[]

  • Teachers College, later part of Columbia University, is founded by Grace Hoadley Dodge as the New York School for the Training of Teachers; Nicholas Murray Butler is its first president.

Ongoing[]

Sport[]

  • September 28 – The Detroit Wolverines win the National League pennant with a 7-3 victory over the Indianapolis Hoosiers.
  • November 24 - Yale wins the Consensus College Football National Championship

Births[]

  • January 22 – David W. Stewart, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1926 to 1927 (died 1974)
  • February 6 – Ernest Gruening, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1969 (died 1974)
  • February 7 – Eubie Blake, African American jazz composer-pianist (died 1983)
  • February 11 – H. Kent Hewitt, admiral (died 1972)
  • February 26
    • Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (died 1950)
    • William Frawley, actor best known for played Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy (died 1966)
  • March 22 – Chico Marx, comedian (died 1961)
  • April 9 – Florence Price, African American classical composer (died 1953)
  • July 16 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball outfielder (died 1951)
  • September 8 – Jacob L. Devers, U.S. Army general (died 1979)
  • September 9 – Alf Landon, Republican politician, presidential candidate (died 1987)
  • November 15 – Georgia O'Keeffe, painter (died 1986)
  • December 19 – George R. Swift, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1946 (died 1972)
  • date unknown – White Parker, missionary and actor (died 1956)

Deaths[]

  • January 7 – Aaron Shaw, U.S. Representative from Illinois (born 1811)
  • March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and reformer (born 1813)
  • March 24 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (born 1819)
  • May 14
    • Lysander Spooner, philosopher and abolitionist (born 1808)
    • William Burnham Woods, Supreme Court justice and politician (born 1824)
  • May 19 – Charles E. Stuart, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1853 to 1859 (born 1810)
  • June 4 – William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (born 1819)
  • June 25 – James Speed, U.S. Attorney General from 1864 to 1866 under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (born 1812)
  • July 18
  • July 25 – John Taylor, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1808)
  • August 14 – Aaron A. Sargent, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (born 1827)
  • August 18 – Orson Squire Fowler, phrenologist and leading proponent of the octagon house (born 1809)
  • August 23 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, Acting First Lady of the United States (born 1803)
  • November 8 – Doc Holliday, gunfighter, gambler and dentist (TB; born 1851)
  • November 11 – August Spies, labor activist, newspaper editor and anarchist (executed; born 1855 in Germany)
  • December 24 – Daniel Manning, businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (born 1831)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Brown, Thomas J. (1998). Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-67421-488-0.

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