The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
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Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
Whitney Houston released her third album, 'I'm Your Baby Tonight.'
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The first episode of Meet The Press, the longest-running American TV program, aired.
Mahatma Gandhi was arrested after leading an Indian miner's march in protest of the Indian Relief Bill.
