A fire destroyed Vienna’s Ring Theater, which killed between 640-850 people.
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Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula, was released.
SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
Eamon de Valera publicly repudiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
The Commonwealth of Independent States was formed by the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus.
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
