The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
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29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
The first episode of Meet The Press, the longest-running American TV program, aired.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
The fourth movie of J.K. Rowling's novel series, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' premiered in Leicester Square, London, UK.