1892

Events

   * January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United
     States.
   * January 15 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
   * January 20 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first
     official basketball game is played.
   * February 12 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a
     national holiday in the United States.
   * March 13 - Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria becames Grand
     Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke
     Louis IV.
   * May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
   * May 22 - British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks major extension of
     colonial power into Nigerian interior.
   * May 28 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra
     Club.
   * July 4-18 British general election: Unionist government loses its
     majority.
   * August 4 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall
     River, Massachusetts home.
   * August 9 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
   * August 18 William Ewart Gladstone assumes British premiership at head
     of Liberal government with Irish Nationalist Party support.
   * September 15 - Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vishnegradksy as Russian
     finance minister.
   * October 12 - To mark 400 anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge
     of Allegiance" was first recited in unison by students in US public
     schools.
   * October 31 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock
     Holmes.
   * November 3 - Grover Cleveland defeats Benjamin Harrison in the U.S.
     presidential election, marking the first (and only) time a
     non-incumbent ex-President wins re-election.
   * November 17 - French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of
     Dahomey.
   * December 5 - John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.
   * Last open land rush is held in Oklahoma.
   * The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Arthur.

Births

   * January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (+ 1973)
   * January 14 - Hal Roach, film producer (+ 1992)
   * January 15 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (+ 1950)
   * January 18 - Oliver Hardy, comedian, actor (+ 1957)
   * January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (+ 1947)
   * January 31 - Eddie Cantor, actor, singer (+ 1964)
   * February 13 - Grant Wood, painter (+ 1942)
   * February 15 - James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense
     (+ 1949)
   * February 18 - Wendell Wilkie, politican, Presidential candidate (+
     1944)
   * February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (+ 1950)
   * February 27 - William Demarest, actor (+ 1983)
   * March 10 - Arthur Honegger, composer
   * March 10 - Gregory La Cava, director, producer, writer (+ 1952)
   * March 30 - Stefan Banach, great Polish mathematician
   * March 11 - Raoul Walsh, film director (+ 1980)
   * April 2 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (+ 1978)
   * April 6 - Donald Wills Douglas, American industrialist (+ 1981)
   * April 6 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer (+ 1981)
   * April 8 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (+ 1979)
   * April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer
   * May 7 - Archibald MacLeish, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (+ 1982)
   * May 8 - Ezio Pinza, opera singer (+ 1957)
   * May 9 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (+ 1989)
   * May 11 - Margaret Rutherford, actress (+ 1972)
   * May 12 - Fritz Kortner, director
   * September 4 - Darius Milhaud, composer
   * October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
   * October 31 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion
   * November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
   * December 4 - Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain from 1939 until his
     death in 1975.
   * December 12 - Herman Poto?nik Noordung, Slovene pioneer of astronautics
     and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer (+ 1929).
   * Ernest Brastins born in Latvia, religious leader (Dievturiba)

Deaths

   * January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line
     heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
   * January 21 - John Couch Adams, astronomer
   * January 31 - Charles Spurgeon
   * February 11 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer.
   * March 13 - Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and the Rhine
   * March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet.
   * April 26 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British Admiral and naval
     hero, dies at 100
   * May 29 - Bahaullah, Prophet-Founder of the Bahai Faith.
   * June 9 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer
   * December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier
   * December 6 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist.
   * Ernest Renan, French philologist and historian.

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