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