What Happened In April 1887 - Historical Events 1887 April

Historical Events for April, 1887

1st » Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
4th » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
10th » On Easter e.g Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.
28th » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, Alsace e.g Alsatian police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of German Emperor William I, German Emperor called William I, defusing a possible war.

1st » H. S. Lloyd, English dog breeder (d. 1963)
3rd » Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Makuuchi Yokozuna named Yokozuna (d. 1956)
3rd » Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (d. 1966)
7th » Joseph Stadler, American jumper (d. 1950)
10th » Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
11th » Jack Phillips (wireless officer) named Jack Phillips, English telegraphist (d. 1912)
11th » Jamini Roy, Indian painter (d. 1972)
12th » Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918)
13th » Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (d. 1995)
13th » Peter Ratican, American soccer player (d. 1922)
21st » Joe McCarthy (manager) or Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978)
24th » Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (d. 1931)
27th » Warren Wood, American golfer (d. 1926)
29th » Raymond Thorne, American swimmer (d. 1921)

20th » Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)