What Happened In January 1887 In History

Historical Events for January, 1887

• 20th » The United States Senate allows the United States Navy named Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
• 21st » Convert 465 mm in of rain falls in Brisbane, a record for any Australian capital city.

Famous Birthdays on January in 1887

• 1st » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral and intelligence chief (d. 1945)
• 3rd » August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• 3rd » Helen Parkhurst, American educator and author (d. 1973)
• 7th » Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (d. 1953)
• 10th » Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)
• 11th » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (d. 1948)
• 13th » Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)
• 13th » George Gurdjieff, Armenian mystic (d. 1949)
• 14th » Hugo Steinhaus, Polish mathematician and educator (d. 1972)
• 17th » Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (d. 1975)
• 19th » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (d. 1943)
• 21st » Maude Farris-Luse, American super-centenarian (d. 2002)
• 21st » Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1926)
• 22nd » Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• 26th » François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
• 26th » Marc Mitscher, American admiral (d. 1947)
• 28th » Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist (d. 1982)

Famous Deaths for January 1887

• 14th » Peter Donders, Dutch missionary (b. 1807)
• 17th » William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1840)

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