After some debate about the exact site for the tower, a contract was signed on 8 January 1887.

Work on the foundations started on 28 January 1887.

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters ( 20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948 ) was a German painter who was born in Hanover, Germany.

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* 1887 – 1888, there were record cold temperatures in the Upper Midwest, heavy snowfalls worldwide, and amazing storms, including the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888 ( in the Midwest in January ), and the Great Blizzard of 1888 ( in the Eastern US and Canada in March ).

* January 16 – Georg Heym, writer ( b. 1887 ).

* January 23 – Alexander Woollcott, American critic ( b. 1887 )

* January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1887 )

* January 21 – Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer ( b. 1887 )

* January 3 – Edwin Muir, Scottish poet, novelist and translator ( b. 1887 )

* January 14 – Sheila Kaye-Smith, English writer ( b. 1887 )

* January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet ( b. 1887 )

* January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier ( b. 1887 )

* January 1 – István Kühár, Slovene ( Prekmurian ) writer and politician ( b. 1887 )

* January 19 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher ( d. 1887 )

* January 21 – Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet ( d. 1887 )

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

It was first performed by the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887.

The opera encountered some criticism from audiences at its opening on 22 January 1887, and one critic wondered if the libretto showed " signs of the failing powers of the author ".

On 23 January 1887, under the heading " Their First Flat Failure ; The First Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Not a Success ", The New York Times reported, " When the curtain finally fell there was hissing – the first ever heard in the Savoy Theatre.

Swami Vivekananda (; pronounced: ) ( 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902 ), born Narendra Nath Datta (), was an Indian Hindu monk.

The number dropped to 38 in 1968, but grew to 82 in 1969, the largest number in a single year in the history of civil aviation ; in January 1969 alone, eight airliners were hijacked to Cuba.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

WCFL DJ Bob Dearborn unraveled the lyrics and first published his interpretation on 7 January 1972, eight days before the song reached # 1 nationally ( see " Further reading " under American Pie ).

Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE ( 23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967 ) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight world speed records in the 1950s and 1960s.

Honorius became Augustus ( honorific )# In the divided Roman Empire | Augustus on 23 January 393, at the age of eight.

In the second week of January 2002, he was flown to the USS Bataan in the northern Arabian Sea, the ship which was being used to hold eight other notable prisoners, including John Walker Lindh.

On January 28, 1998, Postel, as a test, emailed eight of the twelve operators of Internet's regional root nameservers on his own authority and instructed them to change the root zone server from then SAIC subsidiary Network Solutions ( NSI )' s A. ROOT-SERVERS. NET ( 198. 41. 0. 4 ) to IANA's DNSROOT. IANA. ORG ( 198. 32. 1. 98 ).

The administrative entity for most of the city is Malmö Municipality which, as of January 2012, has 302, 835 inhabitants in eight different localities.

On January 4, 2009, the NFC North champion Vikings hosted the Philadelphia Eagles for the Wild Card round, their first home playoff game in eight years.

The city was the site of the Nag Hammadi massacre in January 2010, wherein eight Coptic Christians were shot dead by three men.

The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name ( from the Latin " octo " meaning " eight ") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.

Then on January 24, eight days before Stephen ’ s death, Afiarta dragged the blinded Sergius from his cell in the Lateran and had him strangled.

All eight television channels are owned by MediaCorp ; its only other competitor, SPH Mediaworks closed its television channel on 1 January 2005.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

In January 2009, the Research Consortium on Nearby Stars project counted eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun.

* January 29 – The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with eight founding teams.

In January 1894, Cripple Creek mine owners J. J. Hagerman, David Moffat and Eben Smith, who together employed one-third of the area's miners, announced a lengthening of the work-day to ten hours ( from eight ), with no change to the daily wage of $ 3. 00 per day.

The Court was established on the 21 January 1959 by virtue of Article 19 of the European Convention on Human Rights when eight signatories acknowledged the jurisdiction of the Court.

Shakur was charged with two bank robberies, the kidnapping of a Brooklyn heroin dealer, attempted murder of two Queens police officers stemming from a January 23, 1973 failed ambush, and eight other felonies related to the Turnpike shootout.

Shortly after eight o ' clock on the morning of 29 January 1860, F A R Russell and three other people saw an alleged transit of an intra-Mercurial planet from London.

* January 8 – Emperor Jin Huidi dies after a 16-year reign in which eight dukes of the imperial family have conducted a civil war ( War of the Eight Princes ) against each other in a struggle for power.

Zhou's health was also failing, however, and he died eight months before Mao on 8 January 1976.

Of the eleven actors to portray the role, only three would play the Doctor for longer chronological time: Pertwee's immediate successor, Tom Baker ( seven years from 1974 to 1981 ), Sylvester McCoy ( eight years from 1987 – 1996 ) and David Tennant ( four years and six and a half months from June 2005 to January 2010, thus longer by a month ).