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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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* 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 )
These were not to be fully revealed until Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who had become Schliemann's assistant in 1879, resumed the work at Hissarlik in 1892 after the first explorer's death.
Shortly afterwards ( in 1892 ) he succeeded in finally beating down the resistance of the Hazara people, who vainly attempted to defend their independence, within their highlands, of the central authority at Kabul.
The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.
The 1892 regular season was a success for Young, who led the National League in wins ( 36 ), ERA ( 1. 93 ), and shutouts ( 9 ).
Victoria was in mourning for her grandson, Albert Duke of Clarence, who died January 1892.
The first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island was Annie Moore, a 15-year-old girl from Cork, Ireland, who arrived on the ship Nevada on January 1, 1892.
Other influential conservationists of the Progressive Era included George Bird Grinnell ( a prominent sportsmen who founded the Boone and Crockett Club ), the Izaak Walton League and John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club in 1892.
Emperor Kazan, who was tricked into abdicating, on his way to the temple where he will become a Buddhist monk – woodblock prin by Yoshitoshi Tsukioka ( 1839 – 1892 ).
The " Inner Order ", which became active in 1892, was the circle of adepts who had completed the entire course of study for the Outer Order.
The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz ( 1892 – 1965 ), who animated The Beautiful Lukanida ( 1910 ), The Battle of the Stag Beetles ( 1910 ), The Ant and the Grasshopper ( 1911 ).
In 1892, she founded the Uppsala Women's Student Association, who set up spex performances and other things enjoyed by male students but from which the women were excluded at the time.
The current grounds were designed by noted American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who planned the expansion and landscaping performed from 1874 to 1892.
Wendell Lewis Willkie (; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944 ) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and a dark horse who became the Republican Party nominee for president in 1940.
Although implicit in Ampère's force law the force due to a magnetic field on a moving electric charge was not correctly and explicitly stated until 1892 by Hendrik Lorentz who theoretically derived it from Maxwell's equations.
This melodramma idilico was performed in the college theatre, and it attracted the attention of the publishers Sonzogno, who arranged for a second production, in Florence, in 1892.
In the United States presidential election of 1892, former President Grover Cleveland ran for re-election against the incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, who was also running for re-election.
* Israel Meyer Japhet ( 1818 – 1892 ) who later became choir director in Frankfurt am Main.
He had an older brother, Alberto ( 1892 – 1981 ), a younger sister, Maria, and an older sister, Beatrice, who had died in infancy.
He had five children by his first wife — Richard ( 1889 – 1968 ), Mair ( 1890 – 1907, who died during an appendectomy ), Olwen ( 1892 – 1990 ), Gwilym ( 1894 – 1967 ) and Megan ( 1902 – 1966 ) — and possibly one child by Stevenson, a girl named Jennifer ( 1929 – 2012 ).
Despite being frail, undernourished and suffering from a hacking cough, which did not prevent him from smoking cigarettes, in the spring of 1892 Crane began a romance with Lily Brandon Munroe, a married woman who was estranged from her husband.
He was sixth of the eight children of Ludwig and Christiana ( Schwahn ) Welk, ethnic Germans who emigrated to America in 1892 from Selz, Kutschurgan District, in the German-speaking area north of Odessa ( now Odessa, Ukraine, but then in southwestern Russia ).
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy ( 1855 – 1931 ), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy ( 1850 – 1898 ).
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford, DBE ( 11 May 1892 – 22 May 1972 ) was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
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His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
Between that year and the buying out of Mr. Darling's interest in 1892, a large portion of the company's precision tool business was carried out under the name of Darling, Brown & Sharpe, and to this day many old precision tools are in use still bearing that famous trademark.
Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.
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.
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.
The Homestead Strike was a bloody labor confrontation lasting 143 days in 1892, one of the most serious in U. S. history.
HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).
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.
In 1892 a local board of health and local government district of Abercarn was formed.
Its institutions included a post-graduate theological college ( opened in connection with the Church of England in 1892, until 1907, when it was removed to Llandaff ).
In 1892, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá ' í Faith.
With his father's death in 1892, and his appointment as head of the Bahá ’ í faith, there was much opposition against him, including virtually all his family members.
He gradually acquired such a high reputation that in 1892 he was offered the professorship of Latin at University College London, which he accepted.
In 1892, a short-lived rule was added crediting runners with stolen bases if a base runner advanced on a fly out, or if they advanced more than one base on any safe hit or attempted out, providing an attempt was made by the defense to put the runner out.
In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.
There was a final weak Gladstone ministry in 1892, but it also was dependent on Irish support and failed to get Irish Home Rule through the House of Lords.
The first Archdeacon was Reginald Hobhouse and he was succeeded by Archdeacon du Boulay in 1892.
The Little Bears ( 1893 – 96 ) was the first American comic with recurring characters, while the first color comic supplement was published by the Chicago Inter-Ocean sometime in the latter half of 1892, followed by the New York Journals first color Sunday comic pages in 1897.
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