Henry Laurens became the first person to be cremated in the US.
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A fire destroyed Vienna's Ring Theater, which killed between 640-850 people.
Abraham Lincoln issued his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped.
