The American action drama series “24,” with Keifer Sutherland, premiered on FOX.
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The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
Father John Carrol became the first Catholic Bishop in the United States.
The first episode of Meet The Press, the longest-running American TV program, aired.
29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.