Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
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The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
Walt Disney's 'Aristocats' was released.
Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
Unofficial ceasefires sprang up across World War I's Western Front.
