-
Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the U.S.
- Basketball Rules
are published
- First Official Basketball
game is played
- Former President
Abe Lincoln's birthday is considered National Holiday
- General Electric
is established
- Family of Lizzy
Borden is found murdered
- Thomas Edison receives
patent for two-way telegraph
- Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes is first published
- Benjamin Harrison
is President
- Grover Cleveland
is elected President for 1893
- Rudolf Diesel patents
the Diesel Engine
- Famous Author J.R.R.
Tolkien is born
- Hardy of Laurel
and Hardy is born
- Portable Typewriter
patented
- Clothes Dryer patented
- Toothpaste tube
invented
- The first gasoline-powered
tractor, manufactured by John Froelich,
of Froelich, Iowa, was shipped to Langford, S.D.,
which was later acquired by the John Deere Plow Company.
- Very first automobile
regularly made for sale was completed by Charles Edgar Duryea
in his Duryea Motor Wagon Company in Springfield, Mass.
- 1st Concrete paved
street built in Ohio
- Macademia nuts first
planted in Hawaii
- Prototype of escalator
patented
- Book Matches patented
- Great Northern Railroad
is Completed
- Coca-Cola is founded
in Atlanta
- Dalton Gang ends
in shootout
- Pledge of Allegiance
first recited in public schools
- 1st commercial long
distance phone line opens NY to Chicago
- First Pro Football
Player Pudge Heffelfinger
- Nutcraker Ballet
premieres
- Oregon State Flower,
the Oregon Grape is Named
- OSU Graduating Class
of 1892
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