Abraham Lincoln issued his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
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Metallica became the first band to have performed on all seven continents when they held a concert in Antarctica.
Henry Laurens became the first person to be cremated in the US.
SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
