1892 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1892?
- January 1, 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
- February 29, 1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
- April 15, 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
- April 19, 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- June 6, 1892 – Chicago ‘L’begins operation
- June 7, 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- June 11, 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world’s first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
- July 4, 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4.
- July 6, 1892 – 3,800 striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving 10 dead and dozens wounded.
- July 7, 1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
- July 8, 1892 – St. John’s, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
- August 4, 1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home.
- August 9, 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
- October 12, 1892 – 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.
- October 21, 1892 – 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.
- November 8, 1892 – The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
- November 12, 1892 – William “Pudge” Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
- December 18, 1892 – premiere performance of The Nutcracker Ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.
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