Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
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Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.
The first great fire of early San Francisco started on the east side of the Plaza.
The Christmas carol 'Silent Night' composed by Franz Xaver Gruber was first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria.
A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
The Texas Seven held up a sports store.
