What Happened in January 1887

Historical Events

Jan 4 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco to San Francisco)
Jan 5 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University

Jan 6 `Abd-allah II of Harar opens the Battle of Chelenqo with an attack on the camp of the Shewan army of Negus Menelik II

Jan 16 Cliff House damaged when powder cargo of schooner "Parallel" explodes
Jan 20 US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
Jan 21 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
Jan 21 Brisbane receives a daily rainfall of 465 millimetres (18.3 inches), a record for any Australian capital city
Jan 26 Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians

Jan 26 Ground is broken and construction begins on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France

Jan 28 England all out for 45 v Aust SCG, their lowest total ever
Jan 28 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

Jan 1 Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral and head of German military intelligence (executed for opposing Hitler), born in Aplerbeck, Germany (d. 1945)
Jan 3 August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
Jan 3 Helen Parkhurst, American educator (The Dalton Plan), born in Durand, Wisconsin (d. 1973)
Jan 9 Dan Taylor, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests, HS 36; Natal), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1957)
Jan 10 Robinson Jeffers, American poet and playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea), born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (d. 1962)
Jan 11 Aldo Leopold, American conservationist, professor and co-founder of the Wilderness Society, born in Burlington, Iowa (d. 1949)
Jan 11 Monte Blue, American silent and sound screen actor (White Shadows in the South Seas; Key Largo; Apache), born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 1963)
Jan 13 George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)
Jan 16 John Hamilton, American actor (The Adventures of Superman - "Perry White"), born in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1958)
Jan 17 Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
Jan 19 Alexander Woollcott, American critic and short story writer (The Man Who Came to Dinner), born in Phalanx, New Jersey (d. 1943)
Jan 21 Alfred Henry Ackley, American composer, born in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania (d. 1960)

Jan 21 Canadian Hockey HOF goalie after whom the Vezina Trophy is named; Stanley Cup 1916, 24 Montreal Canadiens, born in Chicoutimi, Quebec

Jan 22 Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
Jan 25 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet (Le Gaie Tristezze), born in Piove di Sacco, Italy (d. 1976)
Jan 26 Arnout Colnot, Dutch painter and graphic artist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1983)
Jan 26 Enrique Ecker, Curacao-American bacteriologist (Rees-Ecker method for platelet counting), born in Willemstad, Curaçao (d. 1966)

Jan 26 Luxembourgian cyclist (Tour de France 1909), born in Aulnay-sur-lton, France

Jan 26 Marc Mitscher, American naval commander (WWII - Task Force 58 in the Pacific), born in Hillsboro, Wisconsin (d. 1947)
Jan 27 Carl Blegen, American archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1971)
Jan 28 Artur Rubinstein, Polish-American concert pianist, born in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland), (d. 1982)
Jan 28 Lily (Theresa) Strickland, American composer of art songs, piano, and silent film music, and ethnomusicologist (The Music Courier), born in Anderson, South Carolina (d. 1958)
Jan 29 Albert Conti, Austrian actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion), born in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (d. 1967)

Jan 1 Johan Hendrik Koelman, Dutch portrait painter, dies at 66
Jan 7 Abraham van Lier, Dutch theater director (Grand Théâtre des Variétés), dies at 73
Jan 14 Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter, dies at 83
Jan 14 Peter Donders, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary to Suriname, dies at 77
Jan 17 William Giblin, Australian lawyer and politician (Premier of Tasmania, 1878 & 1879-84), dies of heart disease at 46