On September 16, 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, creating the first peacetime draft in U.S. history as war consumed Europe.
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August 28, 1946 | Nuclear Testing Begins on Bikini Atoll
On this day in 1946, the United States began its first underwater nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, marking a new chapter in the Atomic Age and leaving a legacy of environmental damage and geopolitical tensions.