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* 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the " whites-only " car of a train ; he would lose the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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* Charles Atlas ( 1892 – 1972 ), a famous bodybuilder
He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.
* 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist ( d. 1981 )
* 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American writer ( d. 1981 )
* 1892 – Johnny Dodds, American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist ( d. 1940 )
* 1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
* 1809 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet ( d. 1892 )
* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )
* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
* 1892 – Jack Warner, Canadian-American film producer ( d. 1978 )
Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.
* 1892 – Gin Kanie, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 108 ( d. 2001 )
* 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 ( d. 2000 )
* 1977 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( b. 1892 )
* 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist ( d. 1892 )
* 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer ( d. 1922 )
* 1892 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English composer and pianist ( d. 1988 )
* 1892 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )
* 1820 – Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician ( d. 1892 )
* 1892 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist ( d. 1983 )
* 1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor ( d. 1977 )
* 1892 – Charles Vanel, French actor and director ( d. 1989 )
It has been edited by G. Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi ( Hanover and Berlin, 1826 – 1892 ).
** Friedrich Blass, Die attische Beredsamkeit, part 2 ( 1892 ) online, pp. 345 – 363
1892 and Homer
In his 1892 lecture, " The Humor of Homer " ( collected in his Selected Essays ), Samuel Butler concludes that Nausicaa was the real author of the Odyssey, since the laundry scene is more realistic and plausible than many other scenes in the epic.
Marker placed at Press and Royal Streets on February 12, 2009 commemorating the arrest of Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892 for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act.
Winslow Homer, The Blue Boat, 1892
In 1892 Pinchback was part of the Comité des Citoyens ( Citizens ' Committee ) which set up the New Orleans civil-rights actions of Homer Plessy as a challenge of segregationist laws in public transportation.
In 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of mixed ancestry and appeared to be white, boarded an all white railroad car between New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana.
Homer attended Boulder Central School ( 1886 – 1887 ), East Denver High School ( 1892 – 1893 ), the University of the Pacific college preparatory academy in San Jose, California ( 1893 – 1894 ), and Los Angeles High School ( 1894 – 1896 ).
On February 12, 2009, the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation of New Orleans honored the successes of the civil rights movement by taking part in the placing of a historical marker at the corner of Press and Royal streets, the site of Homer Plessy ’ s arrest in New Orleans in 1892.
File: Plessy marker. jpg | Front of the marker placed Feb. 12, 2009 commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy June 17, 1892 for violating the Louisiana 1890 Separate Car Act.
Historical marker placed at Press and Royal Streets commemorating the planned arrest of Homer Plessy on June 7, 1892.
1892 and Plessy
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first class ticket at the Press Street Depot and boarded a " whites only " car of the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana.
On any other day in 1892, Plessy with his pale skin color could have ridden in the train car restricted to white passengers without notice.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first-class ticket for the commuter train that ran from New Orleans to Covington, sat down in the car for white riders only and the conductor asked whether he was a colored man, Medley said.
In 1892, the Citizens ' Committee asked Plessy to agree to violate Louisiana's Separate Car law that required the segregation of passenger trains by race.
On June 7, 1892, Plessy, then thirty years old and resembling in skin color and physical features a white male, bought a first-class ticket on the East Louisiana Railroad running between New Orleans and Covington, the seat of now suburban St. Tammany Parish.
1892 and is
Lake Foy Sagar is situated in the outskirts of the city, it is a picturesque artificial lake that was created as a famine relief project in 1892.
The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.
He died at Philadelphia on March 22, 1892, and is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
By 1892, Munch formulated his characteristic, and original, Synthetist aesthetic, as seen in Melancholy, in which color is the symbol-laden element.
Ellis Island is an island in Upper New York Bay that was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
Romanes ' 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel's allegedly fraudulent embryo drawings ( this version of the figure is often attributed incorrectly to Haeckel ).
* 1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
The apex of his concert career is considered to be 1889 to 1892 when he had concert tours throughout Europe.
* 1892 – The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
* 1892 – Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
* 1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
* 1892 – St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
Kerosene is used as a fuel in portable stoves, especially in Primus stoves invented in 1892.
In 1892, James E. Henry bought approximately of virgin timber and established a logging enterprise at what is today the center of Lincoln.
A photograph of the Newton Heath team, taken in 1892, is believed to show the players wearing red-and-white quartered jerseys and blue shorts.
Romanes's 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel's controversial embryo drawings ( this version of the figure is often attributed incorrectly to Haeckel ).
* 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
Another of his books is The Eve of the French Revolution ( 1892 ).
The bulk of the passage, with the exception of the portions in italics, is excerpted ( with chance errors ) from a translation of chapter 61 of Benedict's Rule found in the book Select historical documents of the Middle Ages ( 1892 ), translated and edited by Ernest Flagg Henderson, and reprinted in 1907 in The Library of Original Sources, Vol.
* Hopkins Marine Station, located in Pacific Grove, California, is a marine biology research center owned by the university since 1892.
The first version to be published by Monumenta Germaniae Historica ( MGH ) was the edition by Ernst Dümmler ( 1892 ); the most authoritative version until today is Michael Tangl's 1912 Die Briefe des Heiligen Bonifatius, Nach der Ausgabe in den Monumenta Germaniae Historica, published by MGH in 1916.
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