29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman to be voted into the US Congress.
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Father John Carrol became the first Catholic Bishop in the United States.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The American action drama series '24,' with Keifer Sutherland, premiered on FOX.
The largest US underground bomb was detonated on Amchitka Island, a remote Alaskan island.
