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1892
 
    
Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death       
1892
 
    
Gladstone, becoming prime minister for the fourth time, is described by the queen as 'an old, wild and incomprehensible man of eighty two and a half'       
1892
 
   
The closing of the Homestead Steel Works near Pittsburgh in a dispute with unions leads to massive confrontation and violence      
1892
 
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The Falkland Islands, by now occupied by some 2000 settlers, become a British colony      
1892
 
    
Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first football pro when the Allegheny Athletic Association pay him $500 to play a game in their team       
1892
 
    
Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck publishes his play Pelléas et Mélisande       
1892
 
   
Dvorák takes a job in New York as director of the National Conservatory, returning to Prague in 1895      
1892
 
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The vicar, the Reverend Richard Tahourdin, moves into Dial House. See in Google maps   
1892
 
    
Former president Grover Cleveland defeats incumbent president Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only US president to serve non-consecutive terms       
1892
 
   
In a sensational trial in Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the charge of killing her father and stepmother with an axe