Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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King George I established the Greek Presidential Guard as the royal escort.
Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
The first great fire of early San Francisco started on the east side of the Plaza.
The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed, which ended the War of 1812 between the US, the UK, and their allies.
