- Dec 4 Explorer Henery Morton Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
The Gondoliers
Dec 7 W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "The Gondoliers" premieres at the Savoy Theatre, London
Chicago Auditorium Dedicated
Dec 9 US President Benjamin Harrison dedicates the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, then largest building in the US
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