1887

Events from the year 1887 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Grover Cleveland (D-NY)
* Vice President: vacant
* Chief Justice: Morrison Waite (OH)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: John G. Carlisle (D-KY)
* Congress: 49th (until March 4), 50th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* January 20 – The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base.
* January 28 – In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the largest snowflakes on record are reported. They are 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick.
* February 2 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the first Groundhog Day is observed.
* February 4 – The Interstate Commerce Act, passed by Congress, is signed into law, with the intention of regulating the railroad industry.
* February 8 – The Dawes Act is signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.
* February 28 – The Atlanta Cyclorama is first displayed in Detroit as "Logan's Great Battle".
* March 3 – Anne Sullivan begins teaching Helen 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 a high school by Dr. Henry D. Cogswell in San Francisco, the first technical training institution in the West (the school opens in 1888).
* April 4 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the U.S.
* May 14 – The cornerstone of the new Stanford University, in northern California, 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 1 – The U.S. National Institutes of Health is founded at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, New York, as the Laboratory of Hygiene.
* October 14 – Pomona College is founded in Claremont, California.
==Sport==
* September 28 – The Detroit Wolverines win the National League pennant with a 7-3 victory over the Indianapolis Hoosiers.
* November 24 - Yale wins the Consensus College Football National Championship.
==Memoriam==
* January 7 – Aaron Shaw, U.S. Representative from Illinois (aged 75; Olney, IL, USA)
* March 8 – Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman and reformer (aged 73; Queens, NY, USA)
* March 24 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (aged 67; New Orleans, LA, USA)
* May 14
** Lysander Spooner, philosopher and abolitionist (aged 79; Boston, MA, USA)
** William Burnham Woods, Supreme Court justice and politician (aged 62; Washington, DC, USA)
* May 19 – Charles E. Stuart, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1853 to 1859 (aged 76; Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
* June 4 – William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President of the United States from 1877 to 1881 (aged 67; Malone, NY, USA)
* June 25 – James Speed, U.S. Attorney General from 1864 to 1866 under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (aged 75; Louisville, KY, USA)
* July 18
** Dorothea Dix, mental health reformer (aged 85; Trenton, NJ, USA)
** Robert M. T. Hunter, Virginian lawyer, politician, 14th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 2nd Confederate States Secretary of State (aged 78; Alexandria, VA, USA)
* July 25 – John Taylor, 3rd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aged 78; Kaysville, UT Territory, USA)
* August 14 – Aaron A. Sargent, U.S. Senator from California from 1873 to 1879 (aged 59; San Francisco, CA, USA)
* August 18 – Orson Squire Fowler, phrenologist and leading proponent of the octagon house (aged 77; Sharon, CT, USA)
* August 23 – Sarah Yorke Jackson, Acting First Lady of the United States (aged 84; Nashville, TN, USA)
* October 22 – Elihu B. Washburne, 25th U.S. Secretary of State from 1863 to 1869 (aged 71; Chicago, IL, USA)
* November 8 – Doc Holliday, gunfighter, gambler and dentist (aged 36; Glenwood Springs, CO, USA)
* November 11 – August Spies, labor activist, newspaper editor and anarchist (aged 31; Chicago, IL, USA)
* December 24 – Daniel Manning, businessman, journalist and politician, Secretary of the Treasury (aged 56; Albany, NY, USA)
==External links==
* 1887 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 11