Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
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Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
Walt Disney's 'Aristocats' was released.
The first great fire of early San Francisco started on the east side of the Plaza.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed, which ended the War of 1812 between the US, the UK, and their allies.
