Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
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The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The fourth movie of J.K. Rowling's novel series, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' premiered in Leicester Square, London, UK.
The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
Father John Carrol became the first Catholic Bishop in the United States.