Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
Source
The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
Whitney Houston released her third album, 'I'm Your Baby Tonight.'
The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.
