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 Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Whitney Houston released her third album, 'I'm Your Baby Tonight.'
The fourth movie of J.K. Rowling's novel series, 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' premiered in Leicester Square, London, UK.