A fire destroyed Vienna’s Ring Theater, which killed between 640-850 people.
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Abraham Lincoln issued his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge was finally opened.
