On this day: November 6
Abraham Lincoln is elected president, New Jersey hosts the first intercollegiate football game, Phil Donahue debuts his TV talk show, and the punk band the Sex Pistols make their debut, all on this day.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility in Washington state, home to the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world. Plutonium manufactured at the site would be used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site in New Mexico, and in "Fat Man," the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan.
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