1887

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( 1880s: )     1887
year 1887

Events

January–March

• January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher.
• January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen Keller.
• March 4 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile.
• April 21 – Schnaebele incident: A French/German border incident nearly leads to war between the two countries.
• June 18 – The Reinsurance Treaty is closed, between Germany and Russia.
• June 21
  • The British Empire celebrates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th year of her reign.
  • Zululand becomes a British colony.
• June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
• July 1 – Construction of the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France.
• July 6 – King Kalākaua of Hawai'i is forced by anti-monarchists to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', stripping the Hawaiian monarchy of much of its authority, as well as disenfranchising most native Hawaiians, all Asians and the poor.
  • L. L. Zamenhof publishes "Unua Libro" (Dr. Esperanto's International Language), the first description of Esperanto, the constructed international auxiliary language.
• August – The earliest constituent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health is established at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
• October 1 – The British Empire takes over Balochistan.
• November 10 – Louis Lingg, sentenced to be hanged for his alleged role in the Haymarket affair (a bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886), kills himself by dynamite.
• November 11 – August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are hanged for inciting riot and murder, in the Haymarket affair.
• November 13 – Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters.
• December 5 – The International Bureau of Intellectual Property is established.

Date unknown

• The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn is founded.
• A construction and developer brand on worldwide, Skanska was founded in Malmö, Sweden.

 

Events

Event	Start	End
Pax Brittanica	1815	1915
Victorian era	1840	1901

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
McMaster University			Big Canadian university in Hamilton, Ontario.
Catholic University of America		Military ranks	The school stays closely connected with the Catholic Church and Catholic organizations.
Florida A&M University		Land-grant	historically black university in Florida
Nebraska Wesleyan University		Military ranks	Nebraskan liberal arts college
Pasteur Institute			Studies biology, microorganisms, diseases and vaccines. This also includes biological warfare.
North Carolina State University		Public	Over 50 NC State alumni have achieved the rank of Brigadier General or higher in the United States military.
RMIT University		Research Public	Melbourne university researching censorship implementation.
Troy State University		Public	Alabama university
University at Buffalo/Law School			Graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Eustace Percy	21 March 1887		3 April 1958	Politician	British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant. He most notably was President of the Board of Education under Stanley Baldwin between 1924 and 1929.
Roundell Palmer	15 April 1887		3 September 1971	Spook Politician Deep state operative	Minister of Economic Warfare in the Churchill wartime government between 1942 and 1945. his put him in charge of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), which ran undercover operations of sabotage in Occupied Europe.
James Marshall-Cornwall	27 May 1887		25 December 1985	Spook Soldier Linguist	Deputy Head of MI6
John Magruder	3 June 1887		30 April 1958	Spook Soldier	After the WW2 Office of Strategic Services was disbanded in 1945, core elements of it were maintained in the new Strategic Services Unit (SSU) led by Magruder, a link to the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947.
André François-Poncet	13 June 1887	France Seine-et-Marne Provins	8 January 1978	Diplomat Politician
Hastings Ismay	21 June 1887	India Naini Tāl	17 December 1965	Diplomat Spook Politician Lawyer	Ex Secretary General of NATO.
Julian Huxley	22 June 1887		14 February 1975	Academic	English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist
R. H. Bruce Lockhart	2 September 1887		27 February 1970	Author Diplomat Spook Journalist Propagandist Footballer
Edwin G. Booz	2 September 1887	Pennsylvania Reading	1 October 1951	Businessperson
Max Brauer	3 September 1887	Germany Ottensen	2 February 1973	Politician Deep state operative	Mayor of Hamburg. One of a dozen men whom Józef Retinger consulted when setting up the Bilderberg
Victor Hope	24 September 1887	Scotland South Queensferry Linlithgowshire	5 January 1952	British nobility	Viceroy of India
Chiang Kai-shek	31 October 1887	Fenghua Zhejiang Qing dynasty	5 April 1975	Soldier
Myron Fagan	31 October 1887	US	12 May 1972	Author Director Producer
Bernard Montgomery	17 November 1887	United Kingdom Surrey Kennington	24 March 1976	Soldier

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