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What Happened In November 1887 In History

Historical Events for November, 1887

  • 9th » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • 11th » Anarchist Haymarket Riot called Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are Execution (legal) known as executed.
  • 11th » Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham, Merseyside e.g Eastham.
  • 13th » Bloody Sunday (1887) known as Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Famous Birthdays on November in 1887

  • 1st » L. S. Lowry, English painter (d. 1976)
  • 3rd » Samuil Marshak, Russian author and poet (d. 1964)
  • 4th » Janaki Ammal, Indian botanist (d. 1984)
  • 5th » Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (d. 1961)
  • 6th » Walter Johnson, American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
  • 9th » Muriel Aked, English actress (d. 1955)
  • 10th » Arnold Zweig, German author and activist (d. 1968)
  • 11th » Roland Young, English-American actor and singer (d. 1953)
  • 15th » Marianne Moore, American poet and author (d. 1972)
  • 17th » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (d. 1976)
  • 19th » James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
  • 23rd » Boris Karloff, English actor and singer (d. 1969)
  • 23rd » Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist (d. 1915)
  • 24th » Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (d. 1960)
  • 24th » Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (d. 1973)
  • 25th » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (d. 1943)
  • 27th » Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (d. 1946)
  • 28th » Ernst Röhm, German soldier, co-founded the Sturmabteilung (d. 1934)
  • 30th » Andrej Gosar, Slovenian economist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1970)
  • 30th » Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer and diver (d. 1971)

Famous Deaths for November 1887

  • 2nd » Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano and actress (b. 1820)
  • 8th » Doc Holliday, American dentist (b. 1851)
  • 10th » Louis Lingg, German-American activist (b. 1864)
  • 11th » Haymarket affair defendants:

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