Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
Rudy Giuliani was named 'Person of the Year' by Time Magazine.
The Texas Seven held up a sports store.
Walt Disney's 'Aristocats' was released.
Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
