What Happened In April 1892 - Historical Events 1892 April

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.

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)

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)