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1892 (MDCCCXCII ) was aleap year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1892nd year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 92nd year of the19th century , and the 3rd year of the1890s decade. As of the start of 1892, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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InSamoa , this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days asJuly 4 repeated. This means that theInternational Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west.
March 1 –Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term asPrime Minister of Greece andKonstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office.March 6 –8 –Exclusive Agreement : Rulers of sixTrucial States (Abu Dhabi ,Dubai ,Sharjah ,Ajman ,Ras al-Khaimah andUmm al-Quwain ) andBahrain sign an agreement, by which they becomede facto British protectorates .March 11 – The firstbasketball game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA before 200 spectators.[ 2] Amos Alonzo Stagg .[ 2] March 13 –Ernest Louis , a grandson ofQueen Victoria , becomesGrand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father,Grand Duke Louis IV .March 15 March 17 – TheSt. Patrick's Day Snowstorm besiegesTennessee with upwards of 26 inches of snow, establishing accumulation records that still stand.March 18 – SirFrederick Stanley , Governor General of Canada, announces his intention to donate theStanley Cup for ice hockey.March 20 – The first everFrench rugby championship final takes place in Paris.Pierre de Coubertin referees the match, whichRacing Club de France wins 4–3 overStade Français .March 31 – The world's firstfingerprinting bureau is formally opened by theBuenos Aires Chief of Police; it has been operating unofficially since the previous year.February 27 :Rudolf Diesel 's patent.June 5 – An oil fire inOil City, Pennsylvania , United States, kills 130 people.June 6 – TheChicago "L" begins operation for the first time with the opening of theChicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad .June 7 –Homer Plessy , a mixed-race man, is arrested for deliberately sitting in a whites-only railroad car in Louisiana, leading to the landmark United States Supreme Court decisionPlessy v. Ferguson separate but equal "racial segregation in the United States .June 11 – TheLimelight Department , later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established inMelbourne , Australia.June 30 – TheHomestead Strike begins inHomestead, Pennsylvania , culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents onJuly 6 .July 4 –Samoa changes its time zone from 4 hours ahead ofJapan to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the International Date Line, and Monday, July 4 occurs twice.July 4 –26 –British general election : TheConservative andLiberal Unionist coalition government loses its majority in theHouse of Commons , eventually leading toPrime Minister Lord Salisbury 's resignation onAugust 12 .July 6 July 8 – TheGreat Fire of 1892 devastates the city ofSt. John's, Newfoundland .July 12 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side ofMont Blanc , flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers inSaint-Gervais-les-Bains .July 13 – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP orBIRPI ) is established in Bern, Switzerland.July 16 –Queen Victoria meets withMartha Ann Ricks .[ 4] July 25 – TheCommunity of the Resurrection , anAnglican religious community for men, is founded byCharles Gore and Walter Frere, initially in Oxford.October 5 :Dalton Gang .Oct.31 : "Sherlock Holmes "
Manuel Roxas Ólafur Thors Ernst Lubitsch Juan Negrín William P. Murphy January 1 January 3 –J. R. R. Tolkien , English professor and writer (d.1973 )[ 7] January 12 –Mikhail Kirponos , Soviet general (d.1941 )January 13 –Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh , Iranian writer (d.1997 )January 14 January 15 January 18 –Oliver Hardy , American comedian, actor (d.1957 )January 19 –Ólafur Thors , Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d.1964 )January 22 January 25 –Takeo Takagi , Japanese admiral (d.1944 )January 26 –Bessie Coleman , American aviator (d.1926 )January 28 January 31 –Eddie Cantor , American actor, singer (d.1964 )February 3 –Juan Negrín , Spanish physician, politician and 67thPrime Minister of Spain (d.1956 )February 5 –William Bostock , Australian senior army commander (d.1968 )February 6 –William P. Murphy , American physician, recipient of theNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.1987 )February 9 –Peggy Wood , American actress (d.1978 )February 10 –Alan Hale Sr. , American actor (d.1950 )February 13 –Robert H. Jackson ,Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States , chief prosecutor at theNuremberg Trials (d.1954 )February 14 –Radola Gajda , Czech commander and politician (d.1948 )February 15 –James Forrestal , firstUnited States Secretary of Defense (d.1949 )February 18 –Wendell Willkie , U.S. Republican presidential candidate (d.1944 )February 21 –Harry Stack Sullivan , American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d.1949 )February 22 February 23 –Kathleen Harrison , English actress (d.1995 )February 27 –William Demarest , American actor (d.1983 )February 29 César Vallejo Ferde Grofé Mary Pickford Arthur "Bomber" Harris March 1 March 3 –R. V. C. Bodley , British army officer, author and journalist (d.1970 )March 8 –Mississippi John Hurt (some sources give his year of birth as1893 ), Americancountry blues singer, guitarist (d.1966 )March 9 March 10 March 14 –John Fulton Folinsbee , American painter (d.1972 )March 15 –Charles Nungesser , French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d.1927 )March 16 March 17 March 21 –Robert S. Beightler , American major general (d.1978 )March 25 –Andy Clyde , Scottish-born screen actor (d.1967 )March 27 –Ferde Grofé , American pianist, composer (d.1972 )March 28 March 30 March 31 –Stanisław Maczek , Polish general (d.1994 )April 6 April 7 –Julius Hirsch , German footballer (d.1945 )[ 8] April 8 –Mary Pickford , Canadian actress, studio founder (d.1979 )April 10 –Victor de Sabata , Italian conductor and composer (d.1967 )April 11 –Marguerite Gautier-van Berchem , Swiss archaeologist and art historian (d.1984 )April 12 April 13 April 14 –V. Gordon Childe , Australian archaeologist (d.1957 )April 16 April 18 April 19 –Germaine Tailleferre , French composer (d.1983 )April 20 –Caresse Crosby , American inventor of the modern bra and socialite (d.1970 )April 24 –Louise Lincoln Kerr , American musician, composer, and philanthropist (d.1977 )April 26 –Richard L. Conolly , American admiral (d.1962 )April 27 –Raizō Tanaka , Japanese admiral (d.1969 )April 28 –Joseph Dunninger , American mentalist (d.1975 )Manfred von Richthofen Josip Broz Tito Mieczysław Horszowski Pearl S. Buck May 2 –Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (d.1918 )May 3 May 5 –Dorothy Garrod , English archaeologist (d.1968 )May 7 May 8 –Andrés Córdova ,President of Ecuador (d. 1983)May 9 May 11 –Margaret Rutherford , English actress (d.1972 )May 12 May 15 –Shigeyoshi Miwa , Japanese admiral (d.1959 )May 16 –Manton S. Eddy , American general (d.1962 )May 18 –Ezio Pinza , Italian bass (d.1957 )May 20 –Harry J. Anslinger , first commissioner of theFederal Bureau of Narcotics (d.1975 )May 23 –Pichichi , Spanish footballer (d.1922 )May 26 –Maxwell Bodenheim , American poet and novelist (k.1954 )May 28 –Sepp Dietrich , German Nazi politician, general and war criminal (d.1966 )May 29 –Leslie Cubitt Bevis , British sculptor and teacher (d.1984 )May 30 –Fernando Amorsolo , Filipino painter (d.1972 )May 31 –Gregor Strasser , German Nazi politician (d.1934 )June 1 –Amānullāh Khān , ruler of Afghanistan (d.1960 )June 8 –Nikolai Polikarpov , Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer (d.1944 )June 12 –Djuna Barnes , American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer (d.1982 )June 13 June 16 –Daisy Burrell , British actress (d.1982 )June 21 June 22 –Robert Ritter von Greim , German field marshal (d.1945 )June 23 –Mieczysław Horszowski , Polish pianist (d.1993 )June 25 June 26 –Pearl S. Buck , American writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1973 )June 28 June 30 –Oswald Pohl , German S.S. officer (d.1951 )Haile Selassie I William Powell July 1 –James M. Cain , American author and journalist (d.1977 )July 2 July 4 –A. G. Gaston , American businessman (d.1996 )July 6 July 8 July 9 –Cromwell Dixon , American pioneer aviator (d.1911 )July 11 July 12 –Bruno Schulz , Polish writer and painter (d.1942 )July 15 July 16 –Michel Coiffard , French World War I fighter ace (d.1918 )July 21 –Lenore Ulric , American actress (d.1970 )July 22 –Arthur Seyss-Inquart , Austrian Nazi politician (d.1946 )July 23 –Haile Selassie I , Ethiopian emperor (d.1975 )July 24 –Alice Ball , African American chemist (d.1916 )July 29 –William Powell , American actor (d.1984 )July 31 –Herbert W. Armstrong , American evangelist and founder of theWorldwide Church of God (d.1986 )Jack L. Warner August 2 –Jack L. Warner , Canadian film producer (d.1978 )August 6 –Hoot Gibson , American actor, film director (d.1962 )August 11 August 12 –Alfred Lunt , American actor, stage director (d.1977 )August 14 –Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji , English composer and pianist (d.1988 )August 15 August 17 –Tamon Yamaguchi , Japanese admiral (d.1942 )August 20 –George Aiken , American politician and horticulturist (d.1984 )August 21 –Charles Vanel , French actor and director (d.1989 )August 22 –Percy Fender , English cricketer (d.1985 )August 25 –Gabriel Guérin , French World War I fighter ace (d.1918 )August 26 –Elizebeth Smith Friedman , American cryptographer (d.1980 )August 27 –Helen Gibson , American actress and performer (d.1977 )August 29 –Kwan Sung-sing , Chinese construction engineer, architect, and entrepreneur (d.1960 )Edward Victor Appleton Arthur Compton Pinto Colvig Ivo Andrić September 1 –Harold Lamb , American writer, novelist, and historian (d.1962 )September 4 –Darius Milhaud , French composer (d.1974 )September 5 –Joseph Szigeti , Hungarian violinist (d.1973 )September 6 –Edward Victor Appleton , English physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1965 )September 9 –Tsuru Aoki , Japanese American actress (d.1961 )September 10 –Arthur Compton , American physicist,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962 )September 11 –Pinto Colvig , American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor and circus performer (original voice of Goofy) (d.1967 )September 12 –Alfred A. Knopf Sr. , American publisher (d.1984 )September 13 –Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia , Duchess of Brunswick (d.1980 )September 20 –Patricia Collinge , Irish-American actress (d.1974 )September 24 October 2 –Ilie Crețulescu , Romanian general (d.1971 )October 4 October 7 –Louis C. Fraina , founder of theCommunist Party USA (d.1953 )October 8 –Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet (d.1941 )October 9 –Ivo Andrić , Serbo-Croatian writer,Nobel Prize laureate (d.1975 )October 14 –Andrei Yeremenko , Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d.1970 )October 17 October 20 –Oliver Goonetilleke , Sri Lankan statesman (d.1978 )October 23 –Gummo Marx , American actor, comedian (d.1977 )October 25 –Nell Shipman , Canadian actress, writer, and director (d.1970 )October 27 October 29 –Stanisław Ostrowski ,President of Poland (d.1982 )October 30 –Charles Atlas , Italian-Americanstrongman ,sideshow performer (d.1972 )October 31 –Alexander Alekhine , Russian chess champion (d.1946 )Francisco Franco Rebecca West November 2 –Alice Brady , American actress (d.1939 )November 3 –Maria Antonescu , Romanian socialite and philanthropist (d.1964 )November 5 –J. B. S. Haldane , British geneticist (d.1964 )November 9 –Erich Auerbach , German philologist (d.1957 )November 12 –Guo Moruo , Chinese author, poet (d.1978 )November 16 November 20 November 22 –Emma Tillman , American supercentenarian, briefly the world's oldest living person and last surviving person born in 1892 (d.2007 )November 25 –Arthur Blackburn , Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician (d.1960 )December 6 –Osbert Sitwell , English writer (d.1969 )December 7 –Max Ehrlich , German actor, screenwriter and humor writer (d.1944 inAuschwitz concentration camp )December 8 –Bert Hinkler , Australian aviator (d.1933 )December 11 –Arnold Majewski , Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d.1942 )[ 12] December 12 December 15 –J. Paul Getty , American industrialist (d.1976 )December 17 –Sam Barry , American collegiate coach (d.1950 )December 21 December 24 December 26 –Don Barclay , American actor (d.1975 )December 29 –Emory Parnell , American actor (d.1979 )December 31 –Stanley Price , American film, television actor (d.1955 )Louis Vuitton Walt Whitman Alexander Mackenzie January 2 –Sir George Biddell Airy , English astronomer royal (b.1801 )January 7 –Tewfik Pasha , Khedive of Egypt and the Sudan (b.1852 )January 7 –Maria Cederschiold , Swedish deaconess (b.1815 )January 8 –Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers , American admiral (b.1819 )January 12 –William Reeves , Irish antiquarian (b.1815 )January 14 –Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale , second in line for the throne of the United Kingdom (b.1864 )January 21 –John Couch Adams , English astronomer (b.1819 )January 31 –Charles Spurgeon , English preacher (b.1834 )February 2 –Darinka Petrovic , princess consort of Montenegro (b.1838 )February 5 –Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish novelist (b.1807 )February 7 –Andrew Bryson , American admiral (b.1822 )February 25 –Charlotte Norberg , Swedish ballerina (b.1824 )February 27 –Louis Vuitton , French fashion designer (b.1821 )March 5 –Edmond Jurien de La Gravière , French admiral, naval historian and biographer (b.1812 )March 13 –Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (b.1837 )March 16 –Samuel F. Miller , American politician (b.1827 )March 26 –Walt Whitman , American poet (b.1819 )March 28 –Emily Lucas Blackall , American author and philanthropist (b.1832 )April 4 –José María Castro Madriz , President of Costa Rica (b.1818 )April 12 –Ogarita Booth Henderson , American stage actress, daughter ofJohn Wilkes Booth (b.1859 )April 17 –Alexander Mackenzie , 2ndPrime Minister of Canada (b.1822 )April 19 –Fr. Thomas Pelham Dale SSC ,Anglo-Catholic clergyman prosecuted forRitualist practices in the1870s (b.1821 )April 21 –Emelie Tracy Y. Swett , American author (b.1863 )April 22 –Édouard Lalo , French composer (b.1823 )April 25 –William Backhouse Astor Jr. , American businessman (b.1830 )April 26 – SirProvo William Parry Wallis , British admiral, naval hero (b.1791 )May 5 –August Wilhelm von Hofmann , German chemist (b.1818 )May 8 –Gábor Baross , Hungarian statesman (b.1848 )May 22 –Alexander Campbell , Canadian politician (b.1822 )May 29 –Bahá'u'lláh , Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (b.1817 )May 30 –Mary H. Gray Clarke , American correspondent (b.1835 )June 8 June 9 June 28 – SirHarry Atkinson , 10thPremier of New Zealand (b.1831 )John Greenleaf Whittier Alfred, Lord Tennyson Werner von Siemens July 11 –Ravachol , Frenchillegalist anarchist (b.1959 )July 17 –Carlo Cafiero , Italian anarchist and leader of the Italian section of theInternational Workingmen's Association (b.1846 )July 18 –Rose Terry Cooke , American author (b.1827 )July 30 –Count Joseph Alexander Hübner , Austrian diplomat (b.1811 )August 4 –Ernestine Rose , Polish-born feminist (b.1810 )August 13 –Charles Lafontaine , Swiss mesmerist (b.1803 )August 23 –Deodoro da Fonseca , 1st president of Brazil (b.1827 )September 6 –Betty Bentley Beaumont , British merchant (b.1828 )September 7 –John Greenleaf Whittier , American poet, abolitionist (b.1807 )September 8 –Louisa Jane Hall , American literary critic (b.1802 )[ 14] September 11 –Clarissa Caldwell Lathrop , American social reformer (b.1847 )September 12 –John Cummings Howell , United States Navy admiral (b.1819 )October 2 –Ernest Renan , French philosopher, philologist, historian and writer (b.1823 )October 5 –Bob Dalton , American Wild Western outlaw (b.1869 )[ 15] October 6 October 23 October 24 –Mir-Fatah-Agha , Persian Shiite clericOctober 25 –Caroline Harrison ,First Lady of the United States (b.1832 )November 15 –Thomas Neill Cream , Scottish-Canadian serial killer (b.1850 )December –Eudora Stone Bumstead , American poet (b.1860 )[ 16] December 1 –Mary Allen West , American superintendent of schools (b.1837 )[ 17] December 2 –Jay Gould , American financier (b.1836 )December 6 –Werner von Siemens , German inventor, industrialist (b.1816 )December 11 –Nancy Edberg , Swedish pioneer of women's swimming (b.1832 )December 14 –Sir Adams Archibald , Canadian lawyer and politician (b.1814 )December 18 Wikimedia Commons has media related to
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