Today in History for Year 1892

Months in Year 1892: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 108

Jan 1st - Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
Jan 5th - 1st successful auroral photograph made
Jan 7th - Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Oklahoma-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
Jan 11th - Hawaiian Historical Society founded
Jan 11th - William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
Jan 15th - Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass
Jan 20th - 1st basketball game played (Mass)
Jan 24th - battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries
Jan 30th - Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
Jan 30th - Capt Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
Feb 1st - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
Feb 2nd - Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
Feb 2nd - Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG
Feb 2nd - Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe & Frank Crosby
Feb 3rd - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
Feb 16th - Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna
Feb 22nd - "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
Feb 22nd - Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
Feb 23rd - 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde Feb 25th - James Barrie's "Walker London," premieres in London
Feb 29th - Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
Feb 29th - St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
Mar 3rd - 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
Mar 11th - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
Mar 15th - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
Mar 15th - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
Mar 18th - Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
Mar 19th - 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket Eng v SA (Cape Town)
Apr 12th - George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
Apr 15th - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
Apr 17th - 1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
Apr 19th - Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
Apr 21st - Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
Apr 28th - 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
Apr 29th - Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
May 1st - US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
May 11th - 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41½
May 14th - Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
May 19th - Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
May 19th - National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
May 20th - George Sampson patents clothes dryer
May 20th - Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria forms
May 21st - Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
May 22nd - Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube
May 28th - Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
Jun 4th - Oil City & Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
Jun 4th - Sierra Club forms in SF
Jun 7th - John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
Jun 7th - Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
Jun 8th - Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy v Ferguson)
Jun 9th - 26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
Jun 10th - Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
Jun 11th - The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
Jun 12th - Neth Society for Currency & Coin collecting forms
Jun 18th - Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
Jun 28th - Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
Jul 4th - James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
Jul 4th - Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
Jul 6th - Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
Jul 6th - Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
Jul 6th - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
Jul 7th - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
Jul 8th - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
Jul 8th - St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
Jul 10th - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
Inventor Thomas Edison Jul 11th - US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
Aug 2nd - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
Aug 4th - Queen Wilhelmina & Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
Aug 4th - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
Aug 13th - US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
Aug 15th - 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
Aug 17th - Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
Aug 27th - NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
Sep 7th - James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
Sep 8th - 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)
Sep 9th - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
Sep 16th - Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
Sep 26th - 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
Sep 26th - Diamond Match Co patented book matches
Sep 27th - Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
March King John Philip Sousa Sep 28th - 1st night football game played (Mansfield Pa)
Sep 29th - 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
Oct 1st - University of Chicago opens
Oct 5th - Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
Oct 8th - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
Oct 10th - Entire Hong Kong national cricket team, die in shipwreck off Taiwan
Oct 12th - US Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools during Columbus Day
Oct 18th - 1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
Oct 31st - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Nov 2nd - Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
Nov 8th - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
Nov 10th - 1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
Nov 12th - Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
Nov 12th - Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pitts Athletic CLub, 4-0 in football
Nov 23rd - Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
US President Grover Cleveland Nov 23rd - P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
Dec 5th - Anti-semite Hermann Ahlwardt elected to Germany's Reichstag
Dec 5th - Sir John Thompson becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Canada.
Dec 16th - Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, SA v NSW
Dec 17th - Tsjaikovski's ballet "Casse-noisette," premieres in St Petersburg

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 307

Jan 1st - Artur Rodzinski, Spalato, Dalmatia, Poland, conductor/composer
Jan 1st - Manuel Roxas y Acuna, 1st president Philippines
Jan 1st - Miklos Radnai, composer
Jan 2nd - Lura Anson, Nebraska, entertainer
Jan 2nd - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
Jan 3rd - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
Jan 5th - Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina)
Jan 6th - Ludwig Berger, writer
Jan 7th - Rudolf Moser, composer
Jan 8th - Werner Wehrli, composer
Jan 9th - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
Jan 10th - Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time)
Jan 12th - Mikhail Gurevich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1976)
Jan 13th - Paul Smart, US, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948)
Jan 14th - Hal Roach, early film director/producer (1 Million BC)
Jan 14th - Martin Niemöller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler
Jan 15th - Frank Hutchens, composer
Jan 15th - Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], Irish director (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) (d. 1950)
Jan 18th - Oliver Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
Writer J. R. R. Tolkien (Jan 3rd) Jan 18th - Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956)
Jan 19th - Olafur Thors, Icelandic PM (6 times, 1942-63)
Jan 20th - Roscoe Ates, Grange Miss, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass)
Jan 22nd - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder
Jan 26th - Zara Cully, American actress (d. 1978)
Jan 27th - Mitya Stillman, composer
Jan 28th - Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor, producer and film director (Love Parade)
Jan 29th - Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
Jan 30th - Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer
Jan 30th - Grigore Gafencu, Roman minister of Foreign affairs (1938-39)
Jan 31st - Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)
Feb 1st - K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
Feb 4th - Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
Feb 4th - Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
Feb 4th - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
Feb 5th - George Saiko, writer
Feb 6th - William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
Feb 8th - Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
Feb 9th - Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice)
Feb 9th - Peggy Wood, Bkln NY, actress (One Life to Live, Mama)
Feb 9th - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936)
Feb 10th - Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood)
Feb 13th - Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic)
Feb 13th - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
Feb 14th - Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
Feb 14th - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
Feb 15th - James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
Feb 17th - Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
Feb 18th - Wendell Wilkie, American Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World). Died 1944
Feb 22nd - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
Feb 22nd - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
Feb 23rd - Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)
Feb 27th - William Demarest, St Paul Minn, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons)
Mar 1st - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
Mar 3rd - Edmund Lowe, actor (Black Sheep, Good Sam, Dillinger, Hot Pepper)
Mar 3rd - Rui Coelho, composer
Mar 8th - Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
Mar 9th - David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
Mar 9th - Frank Puglia, Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
Mar 9th - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
Mar 9th - Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist,poet (The Land) and gardener
Mar 10th - Arthur Oscar Honnegger, Le Havre France, composer (King David)
Mar 10th - Eva Turner, British soprano
Mar 10th - Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
Mar 10th - Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
Mar 11th - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
Mar 13th - Alec Rowley, composer
Mar 13th - Janet Flanner, journalist (New Yorker)
Mar 14th - Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
Mar 15th - James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
Mar 16th - Caesar Vallejo, Peruvian/French poet (Los Heraldos Negros)
Mar 16th - James Petrillo, leader of the U.S. musicians union (d. 1984)
Mar 17th - Sayed Darwish, composer
Mar 17th - Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
Mar 18th - Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter (WW II)
Mar 19th - Robert Denzler, composer
Mar 19th - Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
Mar 19th - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
Mar 25th - Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
Mar 27th - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofe, NY, composer
Mar 27th - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
Mar 28th - Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
Mar 28th - Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)
Mar 29th - Jozsef Mindszenty, [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal
Mar 30th - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
Mar 30th - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
Mar 30th - Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
Mar 31st - Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
Apr 4th - Cyril Smith, Peterhead Scotland, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
Apr 4th - Esther Howard, MT
Apr 6th - Donald Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McConnell Douglas)
Apr 6th - Lowell Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure)
Apr 6th - Mateusz Glinski, composer
Apr 8th - Mary Pickford, [Gladys Smith], actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)
Apr 8th - Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
Apr 10th - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
Apr 10th - Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
Apr 12th - Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinettist
Apr 13th - Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
Apr 13th - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar)
Apr 14th - Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Jan 11th - Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
Sep 14th - AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 81 of 81

Jan 1st - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
Jan 2nd - George B Airy, English astronomer/writer, dies at 90
Jan 7th - Tewfik Pasja, viceroy of Egypt, dies at 39
Jan 8th - John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67
Jan 10th - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91
Jan 13th - Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62
Jan 14th - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, British prince (b. 1864)
Jan 16th - Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies
Jan 17th - Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
Jan 18th - Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1819)
Jan 21st - John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies
Jan 22nd - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
Jan 31st - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
Feb 5th - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
Feb 11th - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63
Feb 16th - Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies
Feb 19th - Monty Bowden, cricket captain (England v South Africa 1889), dies at 26
Feb 20th - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74
Feb 22nd - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
Feb 27th - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
Mar 1st - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
Mar 10th - Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88), dies at 69
Mar 16th - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
Mar 20th - Arthor Goring Thomas, composer, dies at 41
Mar 26th - Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
Mar 26th - Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
Mar 29th - William Bowman, English anatomist, dies at 75
Mar 31st - Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
Apr 2nd - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79
Apr 17th - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
Apr 19th - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
Apr 22nd - Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, composer, dies at 69
Apr 25th - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
Apr 26th - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
May 1st - Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
May 2nd - Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69
May 5th - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80
May 5th - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
May 6th - Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54
May 13th - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63
May 15th - Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
May 16th - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
May 16th - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
May 17th - Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
May 29th - Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74
Jun 9th - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59
Jun 9th - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
Jun 9th - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
Jun 16th - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
Jun 22nd - Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (b. 1819)
Jun 28th - Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (b. 1810)
Jul 18th - Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), dies at 83
Jul 19th - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
Aug 9th - Matthias de Vries, linguistic (spelling), dies
Aug 11th - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
Aug 19th - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
Aug 23rd - Deodoro da Fonseca, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
Sep 7th - John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
Sep 11th - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer, dies at 84
Sep 17th - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austrian, dies
Sep 24th - Cornelis A van Sypesteyn, Dutch governor of Suriname, dies at 69
Sep 24th - Patrick S Gilmore, composer, dies at 62
Oct 4th - Guillaume Van Kerckhoven, Belgian captain, dies at 39
Oct 5th - Bill Powers, US member of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5th - Bob Dalton, US leader of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5th - Dick Broadwell, US member of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 5th - Grat Dalton, US member of Daltonbende, dies
Oct 6th - Alfred Tennyson, writer, dies at 83
Oct 23rd - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52
Oct 25th - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st lady (1889-1892), dies at 60
Oct 29th - William M Harnett, US painter (Old Cupboard Door), dies
Nov 15th - Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish serial killer, is executed at 42
Nov 26th - Charles Lavigerie, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1825)
Dec 1st - Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered
Dec 2nd - Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (b. 1836)
Dec 3rd - William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien, dies
Dec 3rd - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (b. 1820)
Dec 6th - E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75
Dec 11th - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (b. 1821)
Dec 15th - Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75
Dec 18th - Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88