A plot to blow up Napoleon Bonaparte with a barrel of gunpowder failed.
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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.
Unofficial ceasefires sprang up across World War I's Western Front.
James Cook visited Christmas Island.
The Texas Seven held up a sports store.
