Walt Disney’s “Aristocats” was released.
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A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
James Cook visited Christmas Island.
The Christmas carol 'Silent Night' composed by Franz Xaver Gruber was first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria.
The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
