• The first-ever basketball game is played at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts under the supervision of the game's inventor, James Naismith.
• Naturalist John Muir establishes the Sierra Club in San Francisco, California.

These people were born in 1892:

• British author J.R.R. Tolkien.
• The father of modern baseball, Alexander Cartwright.
• Japanese author Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
• British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane.
• American protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

These people died in 1892:

• American poet Walt Whitman.
• English author and Egyptologist Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards.

1891 - 1892 - 1893

19th century

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