1892 Calendar
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1892 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1892
– Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
January 15, 1892
– James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
April 15, 1892
– The General Electric Company is formed.
May 28, 1892
– In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
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 7, 1892
– Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
August 9, 1892
– Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
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.
Who Were Born On 1892?
January 1, 1892
– Artur Rodziński, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
January 4, 1892
– Maria Diaz Cortes, Spanish supercentarian (d. 2009)
March 27, 1892
– Dorrit Weixler, German actress (d. 1916)
March 30, 1892
– Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
June 21, 1892
– Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian (d. 1971)
October 6, 1892
– Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
October 9, 1892
– Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
December 21, 1892
– Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (d. 1980)
December 27, 1892
– Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War One flying ace (d. 1917)