What day of the week was August 30, 1918?

The day of the week August 30th, 1918 fell on was a Friday.

Ted Williams the American baseball player and manager (d. 2002) was born on 30 August in 1918.

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