01 Jan 1892
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Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants
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01 Jan 1892
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Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States. |
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05 Jan 1892
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1st successful auroral photograph made
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07 Jan 1892
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Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs, Okla-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns
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11 Jan 1892
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Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl
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11 Jan 1892
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William D McCoy of Indiana appointed US minister to Liberia
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11 Jan 1892
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Hawaiian Historical Society founded
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15 Jan 1892
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James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball. |
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15 Jan 1892
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Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Massachusetts
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20 Jan 1892
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1st basketball game played (Massachusetts)
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24 Jan 1892
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Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries
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30 Jan 1892
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Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test
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30 Jan 1892
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Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out
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01 Feb 1892
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Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite
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02 Feb 1892
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Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
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02 Feb 1892
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Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England vs. Aust SCG
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02 Feb 1892
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Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby
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03 Feb 1892
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Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
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16 Feb 1892
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Opera "Werther, " premieres in Vienna
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16 Feb 1892
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The opera "Werther" is produced (Vienna)
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22 Feb 1892
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"Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James Theater (London)
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22 Feb 1892
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Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
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23 Feb 1892
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1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
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23 Feb 1892
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1st college student government established, Bryn Mawr PA
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25 Feb 1892
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James Barrie's "Walker London" premieres in London
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29 Feb 1892
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St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated. |
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29 Feb 1892
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Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
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03 Mar 1892
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1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn
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11 Mar 1892
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1st public basketball game (Springfield, Massachusetts)
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15 Mar 1892
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Liverpool F.C. is founded. |
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15 Mar 1892
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1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
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15 Mar 1892
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New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
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18 Mar 1892
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Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup. |
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18 Mar 1892
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Lord Stanley proposes silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
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19 Mar 1892
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3 brothers Hearne play in same Test Cricket England vs SA (Cape Town)
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12 Apr 1892
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George C Blickensderfer patents portable typewriter
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15 Apr 1892
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General Electric Company, forms and is incorporated in New York
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15 Apr 1892
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The General Electric Company is formed. |
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17 Apr 1892
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1st Sunday NL baseball game, Reds beat Cards 5-1
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17 Apr 1892
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1st Sunday National League baseball game, Cincinnati Reds beat St Louis Cardinals 5-1
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19 Apr 1892
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Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
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19 Apr 1892
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Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts. |
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21 Apr 1892
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Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St. Louis, Missouri
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21 Apr 1892
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1st buffalo born in Golden Gate Park
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28 Apr 1892
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1st performance of Antonin Dvor
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29 Apr 1892
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Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
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01 May 1892
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US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
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11 May 1892
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18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra wins in 2:41
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14 May 1892
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Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
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19 May 1892
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Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer
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19 May 1892
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National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
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20 May 1892
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George Sampson patents clothes dryer
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20 May 1892
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Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary forms
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21 May 1892
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera "I Pagliacci" premieres in Milan
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22 May 1892
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Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube
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28 May 1892
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In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club. |
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28 May 1892
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Sierra Club forms by John Muir in San Fransisco, for conservation of nature
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04 Jun 1892
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Oil City and Titusville Penn, destroyed by oil tank explosion; 130 die
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04 Jun 1892
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Sierra Club forms in San Francisco
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06 Jun 1892
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The Chicago "L" commuter rail system begins operation |
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07 Jun 1892
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John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
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07 Jun 1892
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Republican Convention in Minneapolis begins
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07 Jun 1892
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Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game. |
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07 Jun 1892
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Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson. |
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08 Jun 1892
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Homer A Plessy refuses to go to segregated RR car (Plessy vs. Ferguson)
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09 Jun 1892
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26th Belmont: W Hayward aboard Patron wins in 2:12
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10 Jun 1892
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Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
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10 Jun 1892
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Wilbert Robinson of Balt Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inn game
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11 Jun 1892
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The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia. |
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12 Jun 1892
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Netherlands Society for Currency and Coin collecting forms
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18 Jun 1892
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Macademia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
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28 Jun 1892
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Phillies tie club record of 16 straight victories
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30 Jun 1892
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The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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04 Jul 1892
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James Keir Hardie chosen 1st socialist in British Lower house
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04 Jul 1892
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Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year it had 367 days, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4. |
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06 Jul 1892
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Dr Jose Rizal forms League Filipina
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06 Jul 1892
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Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa fire on scabs, killing 7
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06 Jul 1892
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Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain. |
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06 Jul 1892
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Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded. |
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07 Jul 1892
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Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia. |
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08 Jul 1892
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American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Massachusetts
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08 Jul 1892
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St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892. |
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10 Jul 1892
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1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
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11 Jul 1892
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US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
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02 Aug 1892
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Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
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04 Aug 1892
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Queen Wilhelmina and Emma open Merwede Canal between Amsterdam-Rhine
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04 Aug 1892
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Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts
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04 Aug 1892
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The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. |
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09 Aug 1892
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Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. |
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13 Aug 1892
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US black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
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13 Aug 1892
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Baltimore Afro-American forms
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15 Aug 1892
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4th and last British government of Gladstone forms
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17 Aug 1892
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Russian / French generals Obruchev / Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
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27 Aug 1892
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New York City Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
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07 Sep 1892
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James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
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08 Sep 1892
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The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited. |
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09 Sep 1892
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E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon
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14 Sep 1892
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AP Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo
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16 Sep 1892
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Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
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26 Sep 1892
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Diamond Match Co patented book matches
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26 Sep 1892
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1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band (NJ)
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27 Sep 1892
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Book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
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28 Sep 1892
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The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal. |
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29 Sep 1892
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1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
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01 Oct 1892
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University of Chicago opens
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05 Oct 1892
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Dalton Gang ends in shoot-out in Coffeville, Kansas bank holdup
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08 Oct 1892
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Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
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12 Oct 1892
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Pledge of Allegiance 1st recited in public schools
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12 Oct 1892
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The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage. |
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13 Oct 1892
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Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1, the first comet discovered by photographic means, on the night of October 13–14. |
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18 Oct 1892
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1st commercial long-distance phone line opens (Chicago-NY)
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21 Oct 1892
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Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893. |
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02 Nov 1892
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Paul Verlaine visits Netherlands
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08 Nov 1892
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Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
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10 Nov 1892
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1st CRU championship game: Osgoode Hall defeats Montreal, 45-5
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12 Nov 1892
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Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
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12 Nov 1892
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Allegheny Athletic Association beats Pittsburgh Athletic Club, 4-0 in football
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23 Nov 1892
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Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
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23 Nov 1892
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P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
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16 Dec 1892
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Commencement of 1st Sheffield Shield cricket game, South Africa vs New South Wales
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17 Dec 1892
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First issue of Vogue is published |
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18 Dec 1892
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Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
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18 Dec 1892
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Anton Bruckner's 8th Symphony, premieres
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18 Dec 1892
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres
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20 Dec 1892
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Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, New York
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20 Dec 1892
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Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
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26 Dec 1892
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Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
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26 Dec 1892
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The opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
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27 Dec 1892
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Foundation Stone of the Cathedral of St John laid (New York NY)
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27 Dec 1892
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N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
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30 Dec 1892
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Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
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