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In Samoa, 1892 had 367 days instead of 366, repeating July 4 twice. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west.

Events

January

January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing immigrants to the United States.

February

February 27 – Rudolf Diesel applies for a patent in Germany, on his compression ignition engine (the Diesel engine).
February 29 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated as a town.

March

March 1 – Theodoros Deligiannis ends his term as Prime Minister of Greece and Konstantinos Konstantopoulos takes office.
March 6–8 – Exclusive Agreement: Rulers of six Trucial States (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah and Umm al-Quwain) and Bahrain sign an agreement, by which they become de facto British protectorates.
March 11 – The first basketball game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield, Massachusetts, YMCA before 200 spectators. The final score is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by Amos Alonzo Stagg.
March 13 – Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria, becomes Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV.

March 15

The Liverpool Football Club is founded in England by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield; Houlding decides to form his own team after Everton leaves Anfield, in an argument over rent.
Jesse W. Reno patents the first escalator, installed at Coney Island as a pleasure ride.
March 17 – The St. Patrick's Day Snowstorm besieges Tennessee with upwards of 26 inches of snow, establishing accumulation records that still stand.
March 18 – Sir Frederick Stanley, Governor General of Canada, announces his intention to donate the Stanley Cup for ice hockey.
March 20 – The first ever French rugby championship final takes place in Paris. Pierre de Coubertin referees the match, which Racing Club de France wins 4–3 over Stade Français.
March 31 – The world's first fingerprinting bureau is formally opened by the Buenos Aires Chief of Police; it has been operating unofficially since the previous year.

April

April 15 – The General Electric Company is established through the merger of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and the Edison General Electric Company.
April – The Johnson County War breaks out between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming.

May

May 19 – Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.
May 20 – The last broad gauge train runs from Paddington on the Great Western Railway of England.
May 22 – The British conquest of Ijebu Ode marks a major extension of colonial power into the Nigerian interior.
May 24 – Prince George (later George V of the United Kingdom) becomes Duke of York.

June

June 3 – Liverpool Football Club officially comes into existence
June 5 – An oil fire in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States, kills 130 people.
June 6 – The Chicago "L" begins operation for the first time with the opening of the Chicago 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 decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which legitimizes "separate but equal" racial segregation in the United States.
June 11 – The Limelight Department, later one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
June 30 – The Homestead Strike begins in Homestead, Pennsylvania, culminating in a battle between striking workers and private security agents on July 6.

July

July 4 – Samoa changes its time zone from 4 hours ahead of Japan 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: The Conservative and Liberal Unionist coalition government loses its majority in the House of Commons, eventually leading to Prime Minister Lord Salisbury's resignation on August 12.

July 6

Dr. José Rizal, Filipino writer, philosopher and political activist, is arrested by Spanish authorities in connection with La Liga Filipina.
Homestead Strike: The arrival of a force of 300 Pinkerton detectives from New York and Chicago results in a fight in which about 10 men are killed.
July 8 – The Great Fire of 1892 devastates the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
July 12 – A hidden lake bursts out of a glacier on the side of Mont Blanc, flooding the valley below and killing around 200 villagers and holidaymakers in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.
July 13 – The United International Bureau for the Protection of Intellectual Property (UIBPIP or BIRPI) is established in Bern, Switzerland.
July 16 – Liberian freed slave Martha Ann Ricks meets Queen Victoria.
July 25 – The Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican religious community for men, is founded by Charles Gore and Walter Frere, initially in Oxford.

August

August 4 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home; she will be acquitted of their murder.
August 9 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
August 15 – Valparaíso, Chile founds its first football team, Santiago Wanderers.
August 18 – William Ewart Gladstone assumes the U.K. premiership, as head of the Liberal government, with Irish Nationalist Party support.

September

September 8 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited in the United States.
September 9 – Amalthea, the fifth moon of Jupiter, is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
September 15 – Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vyshnegradsky as Russian finance minister.
September 22 – The 'Little Pastry Chef', a French police informant among anarchists, is murdered in Saint-Denis.
September – Women are first admitted to Yale University's graduate school.

October

October 1 – The University of Chicago holds its first classes.

October 5

The Dalton Gang, attempting to rob two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, is shot by the townspeople; only Emmett Dalton, with 23 wounds, survives, to spend 14 years in prison.
Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium, during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
October 12 – To mark the 400th anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge of Allegiance" is first recited in unison by students in U.S. public schoolss.
October 30 – The Historical American Exposition opens in Madrid.
October 31 – The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London.

November

November 2 – The first football club in Bohemia, Slavia Praha is established, originally under name of Akademický cyklistický odbor Slavia (A.C.O.S.), focusing on cycling.

November 8

1892 United States presidential election: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver, to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
An anarchist bomb kills six in a police station in Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris.
The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.
November 17 – French troops occupy Abomey, capital of the kingdom of Dahomey.
November 24 – The Hotel Zinzendorf catches fire in the city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; 45 people die.

December

December 5 – John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.
December 8 – The various congregations of Trappists leave the Cistercian Order entirely and merge to form a new order with the approval of Pope Leo XIII named the 'Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe', formalising their identity and spirituality as a separate monastic community.
December 9 – The Newcastle East End F.C. is renamed Newcastle United F.C., following the demise of the Newcastle West End F.C. and East End's move to St James' Park, formerly West End's home, in the north east of England.
December 17 – First issue of Vogue is published in the United States.
December 18 – The Nutcracker ballet, with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Date unknown

Diplomat Henry Galway secures a treaty by which Ovonramwen, Oba of Benin, ostensibly accepts British protection for his kingdom.
A cholera outbreak occurs in Hamburg, Germany.
A 50-year-old tortoise called Timothy, previously serving as a naval mascot, is brought to the estate of Powderham Castle in England, where she lives until her death in 2004.
Viruses are first described by Russian biologist Dmitri Ivanovsky.

Births

January

January 1

Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d. 1958)
Manuel Roxas, 5th President of the Philippines (d. 1948)
January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, English professor and writer (d. 1973)
January 12 – Mikhail Kirponos, Soviet general (d. 1941)
January 13 – Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Iranian writer (d. 1997)

January 14

Martin Niemöller, German theologian and prisoner in the Nazi Holocaust (d. 1984)
Hal Roach, American film, television producer (d. 1992)
Franz Dahlem, German politician (d. 1981)

January 15

Rex Ingram, Irish film director (d. 1950)
Hobey Baker, American athlete (d. 1918)
William Beaudine, American film director (d. 1970)
January 18 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian, actor (d. 1957)
January 19 – Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 5-times prime minister (d. 1964)

January 22

Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (d. 1986)
Bahruz Kangarli, Azerbaijani artist (d. 1922)
January 25 – Takeo Takagi, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)
January 26 – Bessie Coleman, American aviator (d. 1926)

January 28

Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
Fyodor Raskolnikov, Soviet revolutionary, writer, journalist, naval commander and diplomat (d. 1939)
January 31 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer (d. 1964)

February

February 3 – Juan Negrín, Spanish physician, politician and 67th Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1956)
February 5 – William Bostock, Australian senior army commander (d. 1968)
February 6 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel 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 the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1954)
February 14 – Radola Gajda, Czech commander and politician (d. 1948)
February 15 – James Forrestal, first United 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

Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
David Dubinsky, Belarusian-American labor leader and politician (d. 1982)
February 23 – Kathleen Harrison, English actress (d. 1995)
February 27 – William Demarest, American actor (d. 1983)

February 29

Augusta Savage, American sculptor (d. 1962)
Dietrich von Jagow, German naval officer, politician, SA-Obergruppenführer and diplomat (d. 1945)

March

March 1

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (d. 1927)
Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, costume designer, and socialite (d. 1968)
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 as 1893), American country blues singer, guitarist (d. 1966)

March 9

David Garnett, English novelist and writer (d. 1981)
Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd prime minister of Hungary (d. 1971)
Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (d. 1962)

March 10

Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955)
Gregory La Cava, American director, producer and writer (d. 1952)
Eva Turner, English operatic soprano (d. 1990)
March 14 – John Fulton Folinsbee, American painter (d. 1972)
March 15 – Charles Nungesser, French aviator, World War I fighter ace (d. 1927)

March 16

César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (d. 1938)
Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Indian Islamic scholar and philosopher (d. 1977)
Gregory Kelly, American actor (d. 1927)

March 17

Sayed Darwish, Egyptian singer and composer (d. 1923)
LeRoy P. Hunt, United States Marine Corps general (d. 1968)
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

Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
Tom Maguire, Irish republican (d. 1993)

March 30

Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
Erhard Milch, German field marshal, Luftwaffe officer (d. 1972)
Sanzō Nosaka, Japanese Communist Party chairman and leader of JPEL (d. 1993)
March 31 – Stanisław Maczek, Polish general (d. 1994)

April

April 6

Donald Wills Douglas Sr., American industrialist (d. 1981)
Lowell Thomas, American journalist (d. 1981)
April 7 – Julius Hirsch, German footballer (d. 1945)
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

Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1940)
Henry Darger, American outsider artist and writer (d. 1973)

April 13

Sir Arthur Harris, British World War II Royal Air Force commander (d. 1984)
Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor of radar (d. 1973)
April 14 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (d. 1957)
April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)

April 16

Dora Richter, German transgender woman and the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender-affirming surgery (d. 1966)
George Chaney, American boxer (d. 1958)

April 18

Bolesław Bierut, Polish activist and politician (d. 1956)
Jack Critchley, Australian politician (d. 1964)
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)

May

May 2 – Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (d. 1918)

May 3

George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970)
May 5 – Dorothy Garrod, English archaeologist (d. 1968)

May 7

Archibald MacLeish, American poet (d. 1982)
Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
May 8 – Andrés Córdova, President of Ecuador (d. 1983)

May 9

Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989)
Ștefan Foriș, Hungarian-Romanian journalist and politician (d. 1946)
May 11 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)

May 12

Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (d. 1970)
Jimmy Wilde, Welsh professional boxer (d. 1969)
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 the Federal 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

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

Basil Rathbone, British actor (d. 1967)
Manuel Nieto, Filipino footballer, businessman, politician, and military official (d. 1980)
June 16 – Daisy Burrell, British actress (d. 1982)
June 17 – Thérèse Tréfouël, French chemist known for research on sulfonamides (d. 1978)

June 21

Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (d. 1971)
Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d. 1985)
June 22 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)

June 25

Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (d. 1980)
Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist, lieutenant general of Unit 731 (d. 1959)
Mongush Buyan-Badyrgy, Tuvan politician and statesman (d. 1932)
June 26 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

June 28

Clifford Campbell, Jamaican educator, politician (d. 1991)
E. H. Carr, English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist (d. 1982)
June 30 – Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (d. 1951)

July

July 1 – James M. Cain, American author and journalist (d. 1977)

July 2

Daniel Mercier, French footballer and soldier (d. 1914)
Sweet Evening Breeze, African American drag queen (d. 1983)
July 4 – A. G. Gaston, American businessman (d. 1996)

July 6

Willy Coppens, Belgian World War I flying ace (d. 1986)
John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Australian soldier (d. 1915)

July 8

Richard Aldington, English poet (d. 1962)
Dean O'Banion, American gangster (d. 1924)
Lester C. Hunt, American politician (d. 1954)
July 9 – Cromwell Dixon, American pioneer aviator (d. 1911)

July 11

Trafford Leigh-Mallory, British aviator and Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal (d. 1944)
Thomas Mitchell, American actor (d. 1962)
July 12 – Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)

July 15

Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and cultural critic (suicide 1940)
Milena Rudnytska, Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer (d. 1979)
Henry Johnson, African-American Army soldier (d. 1929)
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 the Worldwide Church of God (d. 1986)

August

August 2 – Jack L. Warner, Canadian film producer (d. 1978)
August 6 – Hoot Gibson, American actor, film director (d. 1962)

August 7

Mohammad Taqi Pessian, Iranian Commander (d. 1921)

August 11

Władysław Anders, Polish general, politician (d. 1970)
Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)
August 12 – Alfred Lunt, American actor, stage director (d. 1977)
August 14 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist (d. 1988)

August 15

Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
Walther Nehring, German general (d. 1983)
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)

September

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

Julia Faye, American actress (d. 1966)
Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician (d. 1956)

October

October 2 – Ilie Crețulescu, Romanian general (d. 1971)

October 4

Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian statesman, chancellor (d. 1934)
Luis Trenker, South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect and alpinist (d. 1990)
October 7 – Louis C. Fraina, founder of the Communist 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 16 – Kiyonao Ichiki, Imperial Japanese Army officer (d. 1942)

October 17

R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, Indian jurist, economist (d. 1953)
Theodor Eicke, German Nazi and Waffen-SS general (d. 1943)
Herbert Howells, English composer, organist, and teacher (d. 1983)
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

Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (d. 1953)
Charles Ledoux, French wrestler (d. 1967)
October 29 – Stanisław Ostrowski, President of Poland (d. 1982)
October 30 – Charles Atlas, Italian-American strongman, sideshow performer (d. 1972)
October 31 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess champion (d. 1946)

November

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

Richard Hale, American singer, actor (d. 1981)
Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)

November 20

James Collip, Canadian biochemist (d. 1965)
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)