Wyalusing is also home to The Rocket Courier founded in 1887, is a newspaper that is printed once a week.

The university's colours of gold and black were officially adopted in 1887, after the rugby team led the debate about the college colours for the football jerseys.

The status of Maldives as a British protectorate was officially recorded in an 1887 agreement in which the sultan accepted British influence over Maldivian external relations and defence.

It was an outlying prefecture of Fujian Province under the Manchu Qing government of China from 1683 until 1887, when it was officially made a separate province.

* 1887: the school was officially placed under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce of Lyon.

First visited by the explorer DeSoto in 1537, Cowley County was officially organized as a county, but reserved for the Osage Indians, by the Kansas Legislature in March 1867, originally named Hunter County for Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter ( 1809 – 1887 ), a Virginia Representative and Senator to Congress and Speaker of the House in the twenty-sixth Congress.

In 1887, North Attleborough was officially incorporated as a town.

Though Neveaux reached the area in 1887, and the settlement began in 1892, officially, he was a squatter until the land was opened for settlement in 1900.

The village was officially incorporated on March 2, 1887.

In 1887, the village was officially incorporated.

The city was officially incorporated on December 3, 1887.

On 21 May 1887, two new buildings were completed at the hospital and the Prince and Princess of Wales came to open them officially.

In 1887 the Act to unite Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College was granted royal assent, and McMaster University was officially incorporated.

The foundation stone was laid by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1885 and the building was officially opened on 24 June 1887.

Cairns House was officially opened 6 August 1887.

In 1887 Eshowe became the capital of Zululand and was officially declared a township in 1891.

In 1887, Britain officially annexed the island, and it was officially put under the jurisdiction of the governors of Fiji.

The Conservatory was founded in 1886 as The Toronto Conservatory of Music and officially opened in September 1887, located on two floors above a music store at the corner of Dundas Street and Yonge Street.

With new contractors hired, the line was complete to Hurstville by 15 October 1884, Waterfall by 9 March 1886, and the whole line to Kiama was opened officially in Wollongong on 22 June 1887.

When created by the Alabama Legislature on February 26, 1887, it was officially named the Troy State Normal School.

In 1887, the line was completed over Siskiyou Summit, and the Southern Pacific Railroad assumed control of the railroad, although it was not officially sold to Southern Pacific until January 3, 1927.

The club was unofficially proclaimed as " Champion County " seven times during the 1850s ; it won the title eight times from 1887 to 1895 ( including the first ever officially constituted County Championship in 1890 ); and seven consecutive outright titles from 1952 to 1958 inclusive following a shared title ( with Lancashire ) in 1950.

The appointment of renowned sports administrator Charles Alcock as Secretary of the Club – a paid position for the first time – in 1872 preceded more success, as Surrey won 32 of 42 matches to again become Champion County in 1887, 1888 and jointly in 1889, before the County Championship officially came into being in 1890.

In 1887 Salo officially became a market town and, in the beginning of 1891, an independent municipality.

After a large deposit of natural gas was found in 1887, Fairmount became part of the Indiana Gas Boom and a center of the glass industry for the rest of the 19th century.

In 1887, Eiffel became involved with the French effort to construct a canal across the Panama Isthmus.

On March 4, 1887, William Randolph Hearst became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and transformed the sedate Examiner into " The Monarch of the Dailies.

Macau became a colony of the Portuguese empire in 1887.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

These equations were verified by experiment by Heinrich Hertz in 1887, and the wave theory became widely accepted.

In 1887, the school became known as the Los Angeles State Normal School.

Two of Grace Kelly's uncles were prominent in the arts ; her father's eldest brother, Walter C. Kelly ( 1873 – 1939 ), was a vaudeville star whose nationally known act The Virginia Judge was filmed as a 1930 MGM short and a 1935 Paramount feature, and another older brother, George Kelly ( 1887 – 1974 ), estranged from the family due to his homosexuality, became renowned in the 1920s as a dramatist, screenwriter and director with a hit comedy-drama, The Show Off in 1924 – 25, and was awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his next play, Craig's Wife.

He undertook his first major excavation in England at Aylesford in Kent in 1887 when he excavated an Iron Age cemetery which later became the type site of the Aylesford Swarling culture which included the first wheel-made pottery in Britain, often connected with the ‘ Belgae ’.

Inayat was born and raised in India in 1887, and as he aged he became more spiritually aware.

* Carl Ferdinand von Arlt ( 1812 – 1887 ), the elder ( Austrian ) proved that myopia is largely due to an excessive axial length, published influential textbooks on eye disease, and ran annual eye clinics in needy areas long before the concept of volunteer eye camps became popular.

Soon after, he became house surgeon at the Chichester Infirmary ( 1887 – 9 ) and, although he enjoyed the town and the company of his colleagues, an appointment at Bart's and the opportunity to return to the company of productive researchers in medicine proved too much to resist.

The second account was written by Anna Klumpke, an American painter from Boston who made Bonheur ’ s acquaintance in 1887 while serving as a translator for an American collector of her work and who later became the older artist ’ s companion in the last year of her life.

Tarpon Springs became West Hillsborough's first incorporated city in 1887, and in 1888 the Orange Belt Railroad was extended into the southern portion of the peninsula.

This allowed Sprague to use electric motors to invent the first electric trolley system in 1887 – 88 in Richmond VA, the electric elevator and control system in 1892, and the electric subway with independently powered centrally controlled cars, which was first installed in 1892 in Chicago by the South Side Elevated Railway where it became popularly known as the " L ".

Those who believe that the Queen saw Brown as little more than a servant point to the fact that after his death she became similarly attached to an Indian servant, Abdul Karim ( the Munshi ), one of two who had come to work for her in late June 1887.

John Stainer's The Crucifixion ( 1887 ) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies.

In 1887 Hansford became a stage stop on the old Tascosa-Dodge City Trail.

In 1883 the " Darby News " was formed in Milford Center and eventually became the " Milford Echo " before folding, the " Milford Ohioan " was formed in 1887, the " Richwood Gazette " in 1872, the " Richwood Reporter " in 1882, which ceased operations two years later when destroyed by fire, and the " Octograph Review ".

In 1867, he became the director of the Allegheny Observatory and a professor of astronomy at the Western University of Pennsylvania, now known as the University of Pittsburgh, a post he kept until 1891 even while he became the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1887.

Founded in 1887, the Pelicans became part of the Southern Association in 1901.

He became known as a concert singer and a writer of vocal songs, of which his The Garden of Sleep ( 1877 ) and After Silent Years ( 1887 ) were particularly popular.

As a member of an 1887 boundary survey expedition, he had made the first recorded investigation of the pass over the Coast Mountains, which later became known as White Pass.

Whittier was incorporated in February 1898, although it was first settled in 1887, and became a charter city in 1955.