1892 Facts

- 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