August 30th, 2008

Today in History

1991:
Azerbaijan declares independence from the USSR.

1967:
Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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

1909:
Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott

1813:
Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.