What happend on 30th August

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1965

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

1965

Casey Stengel announces his retirement from baseball

1963

Hotline between U.S. and Soviet leaders goes into operation.

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.

1945

Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.

1945

Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Forces.

1942

World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.

1941

Siege of Leningrad begins.

1922

Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) ("Turkish War of Independence")

1918

Fanya Kaplan, an assassin, shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.