Plutonium produced for the first time

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6 November, 1944

Element Plutonium was produced for the first time on 6th November 1944 at Hanford Atomic Facility. It was later used in the atomic bomb (Fat Man) dropped over Nagasaki, Japan. The element had been isolated by a team of scientists led by Glenn T. Seaborg.