Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

Cleveland went without major league baseball for two seasons until gaining a team in the American Association ( AA ) in 1887.

In 1887, for example, ten thousand workers at sugar plantations in Louisiana, organized by the Knights of Labor, went on strike for an increase in their pay to $ 1. 25 a day.

* June 12, 1887: Cleveland, Tennessee Will Guess went to the school and fatally shot Miss Irene Fann, his little sister's teacher, for whipping her the day before.

The club won one more VFA premiership, in 1887, but after that, particularly during the 1890s, the club went from one of the strongest clubs in the Association to one of the weaker, both on-field and off-field.

Although Michelson and Morley went on to different experiments after their first publication in 1887, both remained active in the field.

A second furnace went into blast in January, 1887 and the two furnaces had a daily output of 165 tons.

In 1887 the railroad finally went through to Los Angeles, and in 1901 to San Francisco: Santa Barbara was now easily accessible by land and by sea, and subsequent development was brisk.

The shoot-out was on February 27, 1887, when men — some would say hired gunmen — from Leoti, went to the neighbor and rival town of Coronado and left several people dead and wounded.

Although one biographer writes that " it is difficult to say how far the relationship went " evidence from her letters suggests that they may have become lovers in 1887 and may have engaged in some form of sado-masochism, a claim echoed by A. N. Wilson.

Following Mary's death in 1887, White went on a lecture tour and traveled in Europe with his close friend, Cornell's librarian, Daniel Willard Fiske.

In 1887 the two artists regularly went to Asnières-sur-Seine together, where they painted such subjects as river landscapes and cafés.

The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin was packed for the opening night on 24 November 1887, although many in the audience already knew the ending before the curtain went up.

Kiyoura went on to serve as Vice Minister of Justice, and Minister of Justice and while at the Ministry of Justice, he helped draft the Peace Preservation Law of 1887.

On April 15, 1887, Merrill went to Madison Square Theater in New York to hear Walt Whitman give his famous " Death of Abraham Lincoln " lecture.

The controversy persisted for so long that in 1903, nearly ten years after Froude's death, his daughters decided to publish My Relations with Carlyle, which their father had written in 1887 ; in this pamphlet Froude attempted to justify his decisions as biographer, yet went further than his official biography had by speculating that Carlyle's marriage was unconsummated due to impotence.

In 1887 he went into management, opening Terry's Theatre, built on the site of the old Coal Hole Public House and music hall on the Strand.

* Montebello Park-Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1887, who went on to create New York City's Central Park.

In October 1920, Gardel first applied for Uruguayan citizenship ; in Buenos Aires he went to the Uruguayan consulate to complete paperwork that said he was born in 1887 in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.

In 1887, Nogi went to Germany with Kawakami Soroku to study European military strategy and tactics.

The team went on to become the " world colored champions " of 1887 and 1888, and spawned imitators.

He went on to develop the overall theory of his system, devising theoretical and practical alternatives for all of the direct current appliances then in use, and patented his novel ideas in 1887, in thirty separate patents.

He was born at Oppeln, Silesia ( now Opole, Poland ), into a Jewish merchant family, went to Leipzig University and then in 1887 to Berlin University, where he wrote his thesis De Gente Valeria under the supervision of Otto Hirschfeld.

During the February of 1887, Baird went on leave due to " intellectual exertion ".

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

Distillation apparatus of Zosimus, from Marcelin Berthelot, Collection des anciens alchimistes grecs ( 3 vol., Paris, 1887 – 1888 ).

The Texas and Pacific reached town in 1876 ; the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway ( later merged into the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) and the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway in 1887 ; the Texas Midland ( later Southern Pacific ) in 1894 ; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant ( Pa-Ma Line ) in 1910.

Volapük conventions took place in 1884 ( Friedrichshafen ), 1887 ( Munich ) and 1889 ( Paris ).

The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2 which had several modifications, and in 1887, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year.

* 1887 – 1888: Augustus Desiré Waller of Paris recorded the human electrocardiogram with surface electrodes.

Lohengrin was first publicly performed in France at the Eden-Théâtre in Paris on 30 April 1887 in a French translation by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter.

He reached his greatest glory with the third Bernhardt play, La Tosca, which premiered in Paris on 24 November 1887, and in which she starred throughout Europe.

* 1887 — Paris conference institutes Carte du Ciel project to map entire sky to 14th magnitude photographically

* Le magnétisme animal ( Paris, F. Alcan, 1887 ).

Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (; March 23, 1887, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire – September 27, 1967, Paris, France ), was best known for participating in the murder of Grigori Rasputin, the faith healer who was said to have influenced decisions of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna.

By 1887 they were licensing their first patents abroad, and Maybach represented the company at the great Paris Exposition Universelle ( 1889 ).

Mucha moved to Paris in 1887, and continued his studies at Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi.

This wagon road was heavily used by the U. S. Army from 1839-48, and remained the main road through Cedar County until the Frisco railroad was completed in 1887 from Ft. Smith through Antlers to Paris, Texas.

He first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1883 – 1887 worked in the atelier of Pierre-Jules Cavelier at Paris while he attended the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.

The first edition of the history was published at Helmstedt in 1584, and a good edition is in the Recueil des historiens des croisades, tome iv ( Paris, 1841 – 1887 ).

The brewery won six gold medals in open competitions in Europe at exhibitions in Amsterdam ( 1883 ), Paris ( 1884, 1887 ), Antwerp and two in London ( 1885 ).

** Paul-Prosper Vermeil de Conchard, L ' Assassinat du marechal Brune ( Paris, 1887 ).

Based in Paris since 1887, The IHT is part of The New York Times Company.

The Paris Herald was founded on 4 October 1887, as the European edition of the New York Herald by the parent paper's owner, James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role.

Also in 1887, Merrill published his first book of poems, Les gammes, in Paris, and received wide critical acclaim in Europe.

* Les gammes ( The Ranges ), Vanier, Paris, 1887

Elme Marie Caro ( March 4, 1826, Poitiers, Vienne – July 13, 1887, Paris ), was a French philosopher.