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.
Eleven kindergarten children were killed after a minivan plunged into a roadside pond in Jiangxi, China.
James Cook visited Christmas Island.
The Treaty of Ghent was signed, which ended the War of 1812 between the US, the UK, and their allies.
The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
