August 30th, 2008

Today in History

711:
K'inich K'an Joy Chitam, king of the Maya city of Palenque, disappears from history. He was probably taken prisoner by a rivalling city state.

1941:
Siege of Leningrad begins.

2002:
The Tandy Center Subway in Fort Worth, Texas, ceases to operate.

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

1962:
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.