29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.
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Whitney Houston released her third album, 'I'm Your Baby Tonight.'
Mahatma Gandhi was arrested after leading an Indian miner's march in protest of the Indian Relief Bill.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.