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1892
January 20 - The first game of basketball is played in Springfield, Massachusetts.
March 10 - Citizens of McLean County, Illinois make up a train of twenty-eight cars loaded with shelled corn for the famine sufferers in Russia.
April 22 - The Winstar Institute, the first anatomy school in the U.S., opens.
May 29 - The American fleet blockades the Spanish fleet in Santiago Harbor.
June 7 - J. F. Palmer of Chicago, Illinois is granted the first bicycle tire patent.
July 11 - The U.S. Patent Office decides that J. W. Swan, not Thomas Edison, was the inventor of the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp.
July 22 - H. C. Frick of Carnegie Steel in Pennsylvania is shot by a worker during a violent strike.
August 4 - Lizzie Borden kills her family with an ax.
September 8 - The Pledge of Allegiance is first published in "The Youth's Companion."
September 26 - Book matches are patented by the Diamond Match Company.
September 26 - John Philip Sousa and his band present their first public concert in America.
October 30 - The first streetcar-printed transfers are issued in Rochester, New York.