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1777 – An expedition led by English explorer James Cook reached Christmas Island , the largest coral atoll in the world.
1814 – The Treaty of Ghent was signed in Ghent, present-day Belgium, ending the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom and the United States.
1865 – Six Confederate veterans of the American Civil War founded the Ku Klux Klan, which would later become a white supremacist group.
1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear during some sort of seizure.
1924 - Albania becomes a republic.
1946 - France's Fourth Republic founded.
1954 - Laos becomes independent.
1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government.
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