Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
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Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
James Cook visited Christmas Island.
The Texas Seven held up a sports store.
The Christmas carol 'Silent Night' composed by Franz Xaver Gruber was first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria.
