29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.
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The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
The American action drama series '24,' with Keifer Sutherland, premiered on FOX.
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.
Father John Carrol became the first Catholic Bishop in the United States.
