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What Happened In April 1892 In History

Historical Events for April, 1892

  • 15th » The General Electric General Electric Company is formed. Image:Titanic-New York Herald front page.jpeg right thumb RMS Titanic disaster.
  • 19th » Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1892

  • 6th » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (d. 1981)
  • 6th » Lowell Thomas, American journalist (d. 1981)
  • 8th » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (d. 1970)
  • 8th » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, co-founded United Artists (d. 1979)
  • 12th » Johnny Dodds, American clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 1940)
  • 13th » Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English marshal (d. 1984)
  • 13th » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the Radar (d. 1973)
  • 14th » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962)
  • 14th » V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957)
  • 15th » Theo Osterkamp, German pilot (d. 1975)
  • 15th » Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
  • 16th » Howard Mumford Jones, American author, critic, and academic (d. 1980)
  • 19th » Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (d. 1983)
  • 22nd » Vernon Johns, American minister and activist (d. 1965)
  • 25th » Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (d. 1980)

Famous Deaths for April 1892

  • 17th » Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
  • 19th » Thomas Pelham Dale, English priest (b. 1821)
  • 22nd » Édouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
  • 25th » Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
  • 25th » Karl von Ditmar, Estonian-German geologist and explorer (b. 1822)
  • 26th » Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)

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