Page 2: Historical Events In 1892

Jan 20   Roscoe Ates, Grange Miss, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass).   

Jan 20   The inaugural officially recognized basketball game was played at the YMCA gym in Springfield, Mass.   

Jan 21   John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies.   

Jan 22   Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder   

Jan 24   Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries.   

Jan 24   battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack Brit missionaries.   

Jan 27   Mitya Stillman, composer   

Jan 28   Ernst Lubitsch, German actor is born   

Jan 28   Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, actor (Love Parade)   

Jan 29   Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)   

Jan 30   Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test   

Jan 30   Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out   

Jan 30   Charles Trowbridge Haubiel, composer.   

Jan 31   Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater).   

Feb 01   K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)   

Feb 01   Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning the use of the "400" to describe the socially elite.   

Feb 01   Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite   

Feb 02   Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)   

Feb 03   Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin   

Feb 04   Ugo Betti, Italian playwright.   

Feb 05   George Saiko, writer.   

Feb 08   Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)   

Feb 09   Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice).   

Feb 10   Alan Hale, [Rufus A Mackahan], Wash DC, actor (Little John-Robin Hood).   

Feb 11   Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer, dies at 63   

Feb 12   President Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday   

Feb 13   Grant Wood, American painter is born   

Feb 13   Grant Wood, US, painter (American Gothic).   

Feb 14   Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)   

Feb 15   James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy.   

Feb 16   Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies   

Feb 16   Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna.   

Feb 17   Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)   

Feb 18   Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World)   

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Jan 01   Artur rodzinski: Spalato, dalmatia, poland, conductor/composer   

Jan 01   Manuel roxas y acuna: 1st president philippines   

Jan 01   Miklos radnai: Composer   

Jan 02   Lura anson: Nebraska, entertainer   

Jan 02   Seiichiro kashio: Japanese tennis player    

Jan 03   John ronald reuel tolkien: S afr, philologist/writer (lord of rings)   

Jan 05   Francesca bertini: Florence italy, actress (odette, assunta spina)   

Jan 06   Ludwig berger: Writer   

Jan 01   Roswell b. mason: Mayor of chicago (b. 1805)   

Jan 02   George b airy: English astronomer/writer,   

Jan 07   Tewfik pasja: Viceroy of egypt,   

Jan 08   John heykamp: Old-catholic archbishop of utrecht,   

Jan 10   Heinrich ludwig egmont dorn: Composer,    

Jan 13   Charles albert white: Composer,   

Jan 14   Prince albert victor: Duke of clarence, british prince (b. 1864)   

Jan 16   Imakita kosen: Zen teacher/abbot of engagkuji monastery,