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Events on Thursday 1 May 1873 2
1813 – 1873David Livingstone (1813-1873)Died 1 May 1873, aged 60The Scottish missionary and explorer died of malaria and internal bleeding at Chitambo, in present-day Zambia, while searching for the source of the Nile. His African attendants buried his heart locally and carried his preserved body over a thousand miles to the coast for return to Britain. He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
1873Vienna World's FairWeltausstellung 1873 opens in Austria-HungaryEmperor Franz Joseph I opened the World's Fair in Vienna on 1 May 1873, the first world's fair held in a German-speaking country. A cholera outbreak and the concurrent stock market crash hurt attendance, but the fair still drew millions of visitors from around the globe before closing on 31 October.