Eamon de Valera publicly repudiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
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Abraham Lincoln issued his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped.
SpaceX became the first private company to launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his 'Day of Infamy' speech to the US Congress – a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
