1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1887 - Events. January 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 early in the morning; prepared for the assault, the Negus orders a counter-attack which routs the enemy, resulting with the capture of Harar a few days later. ...

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1887 - January. January 1 - Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence in World War II (d. 1945) January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) January 19 - Alexander Woollcott, American intellectual (d. 1943) January 21 - Maude Davis, Oldest Person in the World (d. 2002) January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist ...

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Image:Winchester 1887.jpg Image:Winchester 1887 Action.jpg The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 are a series of lever-action shotguns that were produced by Winchester Repeating Arms during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. The shotguns were originally designed by famed American gun designer and maker John Moses Browning. Winchester Model 1887/1901 - Overview. Considered the first truly successful repeating shotgun, it was in fact not the preferred choice of its designer ...

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The Nanaimo mine explosion on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killed 150 miners and was the largest man-made explosion in the world until the Halifax Explosion. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. The explosion started deep underground in the Number One Coal Mine, after explosives were laid improperly. Although many miners died instantly, others were trapped by the explosion. These men wrote farewell messages in the dust of their shovels. More than 150 children lost their fathers and 46 women became widows ...

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Berl Katznelson (1887 - 1944) was a Labor Zionism philosopher. He is regarded as one of the intellectual personalities behind the rise of modern Zionism which led to the establishsment of the modern State of Israel. Berl Katznelson - External link. Biography ...

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The 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, commonly known as the Bayonet Constitution by its opponents, was a 1887 Reform Constitution written by Lorrin A. Thurston and imposed on the Kingdom of Hawai'i and its monarch David Kalākaua by a group of American and European businessmen and an armed militia, associated with a secret society called the Hawaiian League in favor of annexation to the United States. The Bayonet Constitution gets its name from Kalākaua being forced at gunpoint on July 6, with a bayonet at his throat ...

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Bloody Sunday can refer to any of the following historical events (in chronological order): Bloody Sunday (1887), violence in London on 13 November 1887. Bloody Sunday (1900), a day of high casualties in the Second Boer War on 18 February 1900. Bloody Sunday (1905), massacre in Saint Petersburg on 22 January 1905. Bloody Sunday (1913), violence in Dublin on 31 August 1913 during the Dublin Lockout Bloody Sunday (1920), violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920. Bromberg Bloody Sun ...

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Charlie Dunbar Broad (known as C.D. Broad) (30 December 1887 - 11 March 1971) was an English philosopher known for his thorough and objective analysis in works such as Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1933). Charlie Broad was born in London, England and educated at Dulwich College and Cambridge University. He earned his professorship in philosophy at Cambridge in 1933. Other related archives11 March, 1887, 1933, 1971, 30 December

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Carl Lwanga (or Charles Lwanga) (1865-1887) is a Roman Catholic saint. From 1885-1887 many Christians were put to death in Uganda by King Mwanga II. Many of them were officials in the court of the king or otherwise very close to the king, including the priest Carl Lwanga. Carl Lwanga and 21 other Catholics, as well as a number of Anglicans, were put to death, some by the sword, others by burning alive. The ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians because they refused to acce ...

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William Pepper (August 21, 1843 - July 28, 1898), American physician, was born in Philadelphia. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the academic department in 1862 and from the medical department in 1864. In 1868 he became lecturer on morbid anatomy in the same institution, and in 1870 lecturer on clinical medicine. From 1876 to 1887 he was professor of clinical medicine, and in 1887 succeeded Dr Alfred S ...

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Balfour Stewart (November 1, 1828 - December 19, 1887), Scottish physicist, was born in Edinburgh, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. The son of a tea merchant, he was for some time engaged in business in Leith and in Australia, but, returning to his studies of physics at Edinburgh, he became assistant to JD Forbes in 1856. Forbes was especially interested in questions of heat, meteorology, and terrestrial magnetism, and it ...

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Wormit is a small town located on the banks of the Firth of Tay in north east Fife, Scotland. It is most famous for its railway station (dismantled and rebuilt at Bo'ness) at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge and claims to be the first Scottish village to install electricity. The town expanded after the rail bridge opened in 1887 as the more wealthy Dundonians built their residences there. Together with Woodhaven and Newport-on-Tay, Wor ...

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The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of repeating weapons during the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century. Winchester Repeating Arms Company - Early History. Winchester Repeating Arms Company - Predecessors. The ancestor of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company was the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, which manufactured the Volcanic lever action rifle of Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson. It was later reorganized into the New Haven Arms Compa ...

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Clive Brook (born 1 June 1887; died 17 November 1974) was a British actor. He first appeared on stage in 1918 and in films from 1919. His daughter, Faith Brook, and his son, known as Lyndon Brook, are both actors. Clive Brook - Filmography. Shanghai Express 1932 The List of Adrian Messenger 1963 ...

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In electrical engineering, the admittance (Y) is the inverse of the impedance (Z). The SI unit of admittance is the siemens. Oliver Heaviside coined the term in December 1887. where Y is the admittance, measured in siemens Z is the impedance, measured in ohms Just as impedance is complex resistance, and the conductance G is the inverse G = 1/R of resistance R

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1887 in rail transport - September births. September 5 - Charles Fairburn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway 1944–1945 (d. 1945). ...

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The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States. As the name implies, the party advocates the prohibition of the use of beverages containing alcohol and was an integral part of the temperance movement. While never one of the nation's leading parties, it was an important force in US politics in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. In 1887, Prohibition Party member Susanna M. Salter of Argonia, Ka ...

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Carl Darling Buck (October 2, 1866 - 1955), American philologist, was born at Bucksport, Maine. He graduated from Yale in 1886, was a graduate student there for three years, and studied at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1887-1889) and in Leipzig (1889-1892). In 1892 he became professor of Sanskrit and Indo-European comparative philology at the University of Chicago, and was later named Martin A. Ryerson D ...

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In sociology, will is a concept, introduced by Ferdinand Toennies (see there), in "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft", 1887. Toennies' approach was very much indebted to Spinoza's dictum voluntas atque intellectus unum et idem sunt ("will as well as ratio are one and the same"). Other related archivesFerdinand Toennies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, Spinoza, sociology

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