← 1886 1885 1884 1887 in the United States → 1888 1889 1890
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See also:	History of the United States (1865–1918) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860-1899) List of years in the United States

Events from the year1887 in the United States.

• President:Grover Cleveland (D-New York)
• Vice President:vacant
• Chief Justice:Morrison Waite (Ohio)
• Speaker of the House of Representatives:John G. Carlisle (D-Kentucky)
• Congress:49th (until March 4),50th (starting March 4)

• January 20 – TheUnited States Senate allows theNavy to leasePearl Harbor inHawaii as a naval base.
• January 28 – In asnowstorm atFort Keogh,Montana, the largestsnowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.^{[citation needed]}
• February 2 – InPunxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the firstGroundhog Day is observed.
• February 4 – TheInterstate Commerce Act, passed byCongress, is signed into law, with the intention of regulating the railroad industry.
• February 8 – TheDawes Act is signed into law by PresidentGrover Cleveland.
• February 26 –Troy University is established as Troy State Normal School; an institution to train teachers for Alabama's schools.
• February – TheAtlanta Cyclorama is first displayed inDetroit as "Logan's Great Battle".
• March 3 –Anne Sullivan begins teachingHelen Keller.
• March 7 –North Carolina State University is established as North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
• March 19 –Cogswell College is established as ahigh school by Dr.Henry D. Cogswell inSan Francisco, the first technical training institution in the West (the school opens in 1888).
• April 4 –Argonia, Kansas electsSusanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the U.S.
• May 14 – The cornerstone of the newStanford University, in northernCalifornia, is laid (the college opens in 1891).
• June 28 –Minot, North Dakota is incorporated as a city.
• July 10 – The Grand Hotel opens in Mackinac, Michigan.
• August – The U.S.National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital,Staten Island, New York, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
• October 3 –Florida A&M University is founded as The State Normal College for Colored Students in Tallahassee, Florida.
• October 14 –Pomona College is founded inClaremont, California.

• Ruby Mining District (Salmon Creek District) is established in Washington state.
• Teachers College, later part ofColumbia University, is founded byGrace Hoadley Dodge as the New York School for the Training of Teachers;Nicholas Murray Butler is its first president.

• Gilded Age (1869–c. 1896)

• September 28 – TheDetroit Wolverines win theNational League pennant with a 7–3 victory over theIndianapolis Hoosiers.
• November 24 –Yale wins the ConsensusCollege Football National Championship

• January 22
  • David W. Stewart, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1926 to 1927 (died1974)
  • Elmer Fowler Stone, first United States Coast Guard aviator (died1936)
• February 6 –Ernest Gruening, U.S. Senator from Alaska from 1959 to 1969 (died 1974)
• February 7 –Eubie Blake, African American jazz composer-pianist (died1983)
• February 11 –H. Kent Hewitt, admiral (died1972)
• February 26
  • Grover Cleveland Alexander, baseball player (died1950)
  • William Frawley, actor best known for played Fred Mertz inI Love Lucy (died1966)
• March 4 –Violet MacMillan, Broadway theater actress (died1953)
• March 5 –Harry Turner, American football player (died1914)
• March 14 –Charles Reisner,silent actor and film director (died1962)
• March 22 –Chico Marx, comedian (died1961)
• April 9 –Florence Price, African American classical composer (died1953)
• April 15 –Mike Brady, golfer (died1972)
• June 25 –George Abbott, producer and director (died1995)
• July 16 –Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball outfielder (died1951)
• July 31 –Peter Bocage, jazz musician (died1967)
• August 27 –Julia Sanderson, actress (died1975)
• September 3 –Frank Christian, jazz musician (died1973)
• September 8 –Jacob L. Devers, U.S. Army general (died1979)
• September 9 –Alf Landon, Republican politician, presidential candidate (died1987)
• September 13 –Frank Gray, physicist and researcher, known for theGray code (died1969)
• September 28 –Avery Brundage, 5th president of theInternational Olympic Committee (died1975)
• September 29 –Annie Dove Denmark, music educator and academic administrator (died1974)
• November 15 –Georgia O'Keeffe, painter (died 1986)
• December 19 –George R. Swift, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1946 (died1972)
• date unknown –White Parker, missionary and actor (died1956)

• January 7 –Aaron Shaw,U.S. Representative fromIllinois (born1811)
• March 8 –Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and reformer (born1813)
• March 24 –Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (born1819)
• May 14
  • Lysander Spooner, philosopher and abolitionist (born1808)
  • William Burnham Woods, Supreme Court justice and politician (born1824)
• May 19 –Charles E. Stuart, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1853 to 1859 (born1810)
• June 4 –William A. Wheeler, 19thvice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (born1819)
• June 25 –James Speed, U.S. Attorney General from 1864 to 1866 under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (born1812)
• July 18
  • Dorothea Dix, mental health reformer (born1802)^[1]
  • Robert M. T. Hunter,Virginian lawyer, politician,14thSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives,2nd Confederate States Secretary of State (born1809)
• July 25 –John Taylor, 3rd president ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born1808)
• August 14 –Aaron A. Sargent, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (born1827)
• August 18 –Orson Squire Fowler,phrenologist and leading proponent of theoctagon house (born1809)
• August 23 –Sarah Yorke Jackson, ActingFirst Lady of the United States (born1803)
• November 8 –Doc Holliday, gunfighter, gambler and dentist (TB; born1851)
• November 11 –August Spies, labor activist, newspaper editor and anarchist (executed; born 1855 in Germany)
• December 24 –Daniel Manning, businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (born1831)

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