Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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James Cook visited Christmas Island.
Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
Unofficial ceasefires sprang up across World War I's Western Front.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed, which ended the War of 1812 between the US, the UK, and their allies.
A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
