Today in History – November 6

1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.

Kelly Barnes Dam failure kills 39 (Nov 6, 1977) (Google Maps)
Kelly Barnes Dam failure kills 39 (Nov 6, 1977)

1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.

Largest underground hydrogen bomb test - Project Grommet Cannikin (Google Maps)
Largest underground hydrogen bomb test - Project Grommet Cannikin

1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

Historic Hanford B Reactor (Google Maps)
Historic Hanford B Reactor

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