Henry Laurens became the first person to be cremated in the US.
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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.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped.
A fire destroyed Vienna's Ring Theater, which killed between 640-850 people.
