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.

2 ( January 1887 ), pp. 137 – 168.

2 ( January 1887 ), pp. 137 – 168.

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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 ).

In January 1887, Narendra and eight other disciples took formal monastic vows.

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.

On January 18, Ernest Gross conducted a press conference at the U.N. lasting an hour.

The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.

On January 4, with the boys back at school and college, Mrs. Lewis wrote Harcourt to say that she was `` through, quite through ''.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

One of the initial questions put to President Kennedy at his first news conference last January was about his attitude toward a meeting with Premier Khrushchev.

When the winter tour began at Los Angeles last January there was no one in sight to challenge Palmer's towering prestige.

Then one day, early in January, 1960, I sat down at my desk, and suddenly I was aware of the crucifix.

A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative.

Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.

Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).

All three of these time scales were defined to read JD 2443144. 5003725 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 32. 184 ) exactly at that instant.

Two 13-person juries composed of artists, academics, critics and AFI Trustees deliberate, discuss and determine the honored ensembles, who are then feted at a private event in January.

In comparison between the January to October periods of 2010 and 2009, depreciation stands at 4. 7 percent.

The London Illustrated News published this photo in January 1921 ( shown at right ) This 1921 photo was also used by the Perth Western Mail in 1924 in a montage and is shown at the right below it.

It then toured to other states, with the final appearance at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on 21 January 2007.

He there entered the service of Henry II of France and had undertaken a campaign to regain his lands when he died at Pforzheim on 8 January 1557.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

In January 40, Domitius died of edema ( dropsy ) at Pyrgi.

In Berkshire, a successful skirmish at the Battle of Englefield on 31 December 870 was followed by a severe defeat at the siege and Battle of Reading by Ivar's brother Halfdan Ragnarsson on 5 January 871 ; then, four days later, Alfred won a brilliant victory at the Battle of Ashdown on the Berkshire Downs, possibly near Compton or Aldworth.

However, later that month, on 22 January, the English were defeated at the Battle of Basing and, on the 22 March at the Battle of Merton ( perhaps Marden in Wiltshire or Martin in Dorset ), in which Æthelred was killed.