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| 1892 |
| | | Ellis Island in New York Bay opens as the point of reception for arriving immigrants | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Frederick Lugard's Maxim machine gun settles a Protestant-Catholic clash in Kampala, the capital of Buganda | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Oscar Wilde's comedy Lady Windermere's Fan is a great success with audiences in London's St. James Theatre | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The Ohio Supreme Court rules that monopolistic practices by Rockefeller's oil company are illegal | |
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| 1892 |
| | | San Francisco businessmen found an organization to protect nature, the Sierra Club of California, a powerful environmental pressure group | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin, with Douglas Hyde as its first president | |
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| 1892 |
| | | The French establish a protectorate in part of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey in west Africa | |
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| 1892 |
| | | W.B. Yeats publishes a short play The Countess Cathleen, his first contribution to Irish poetic drama | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Bernard Shaw's first play, Widowers' Houses, deals with the serious social problem of slum landlords | |
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| 1892 |
| | | Keir Hardie wins the London seat of West Ham, becoming the first Labour member of the House of Commons | |
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