Walt Disney’s “Aristocats” was released.
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A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
James Cook visited Christmas Island.
The first great fire of early San Francisco started on the east side of the Plaza.
Several Confederate veterans formed the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee.
Jan van Riebeeck departed for Cape of Good Hope to found the first permanent European settlement.