August 30th, 2008

Today in History

1999:
East Timorese vote for independence in a referendum.

1965:
Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone."

1963:
1963 - Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

1942:
World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.

1873:
Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.