Dec. 24 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1814, the Treaty of Ghent was signed by representatives of the United States and Britain, ending the War of 1812. Advertisement In 1851, the Library of Congress and part of the Capitol building in Washington were destroyed by fire. In 1865, a group of Confederate veterans met in Pulaski, Tenn., to form a secret society they called the Ku Klux Klan. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI In 1871, Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" premiered in Cairo. It had been