The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
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.
The UN published a report revealing more than 200 mass graves found in ISIS-controlled regions of Iraq.
