10 events found for 1892
Scottish-American preservationist John Muir (pictured) founded the environmental organization Sierra Club in California
Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of
Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother were found murdered in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts; Borden was later…
The Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company was founded in Antwerp to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State.
Celtic Park, the largest football stadium in Scotland and home of Celtic F.C., opened.
At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and…
The Pledge of Allegiance of the United States was first used in public schools to coincide with the opening of the…