What Happened In June 1892 - Historical Events 1892 June

Historical Events for June, 1892

7th » Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
7th » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, 'Plessy v. Ferguson'.
30th » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

5th » Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter (d. 1944)
6th » Donald F. Duncan, Sr., American toy maker and businessman, founded the Duncan Toys Company (d. 1971)
7th » Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1975)
12th » Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982)
12th » Apostolos Grozos, Greek politician (d. 1981)
13th » Basil Rathbone, South African-American actor (d. 1967)
21st » Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian and academic (d. 1971)
22nd » Robert Ritter von Greim, German general (d. 1945)
25th » Shirō Ishii, Japanese microbiologist and general (d. 1959)
26th » Pearl S. Buck, American author and educator, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
27th » Paul Colin (artist) called Paul Colin, French illustrator (d. 1985)
29th » Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (d. 1972)
30th » Pierre Blanchar, Algerian-French actor and director (d. 1963)
30th » Bo Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mississippi Sheiks) (d. 1962)
30th » Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (d. 1951)