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January 28, 1841
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was born (with the name John Rowlands) in Denbigh, Wales. Stanley, a world-renowned explorer of the Belgian Congo, specifically the Congo River, and famous for finding medical missionary Dr. David Livingstone, lived in Arkansas for a few months in 1860–1861, working as a clerk in a country store at Cypress Bend on the Arkansas River near Pine Bluff (Jefferson County).