1871

Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida had its world premiere in Cairo to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.

Journalist and explorer Henry M. Stanley found missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa. Stanley delivered his greeting: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” To which

A racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California occurred. Approximately 500 white and Hispanic Americans attacked, harassed, robbed and murdered ethnic Chinese residents

One of America’s worst urban fires and forest fires broke out in Chicago, Illinois and Peshtigo, Wisconsin. The Chicago fire claimed more than 200 lives

Journalist Henry M. Stanley began his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.