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  • Kazan, Russian Empire
    Monday Aug 1, 1887
    Vladimir Lenin

    Entering Kazan University

    Kazan, Russian Empire
    Monday Aug 1, 1887

    Upon entering Kazan University in August 1887, Lenin moved into a nearby flat.



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  • Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
    Wednesday Aug 10, 1887
    09:30:00 PM
    Wind turbine

    The first automatically operated wind turbine

    Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
    Wednesday Aug 10, 1887
    09:30:00 PM

    Some months later American inventor Charles F. Brush was able to build the first automatically operated wind turbine after consulting local University professors and colleagues Jacob S. Gibbs and Brinsley Coleberd and successfully getting the blueprints peer-reviewed for electricity production in Cleveland, Ohio.



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  • Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1887
    Marcus Garvey

    Birth

    Saint Ann's Bay, Jamaica
    Wednesday Aug 17, 1887

    Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on 17 August 1887 in Saint Ann's Bay, a town in the Colony of Jamaica.



    St Ann's Bay, Jamaica
    A statue of Garvey now stands in Saint Ann's Bay
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