August 1
1894 Sino-Japanese hostilities began as China and Japan declared war over the question of Korea.
1941 The United States government began licensing oil shipments to Japan.
1943 The United States government began construction of its Oak Ridge, Tennessee uranium 235 processing facility. Uranium 235 was the fissionable material at the heart of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 3, 1945. The plant cost $280 million to construct.
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