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• Today is Wednesday, June 26, the 177th day of 2013. There are 188 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 26, 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city's residents, declaring: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner).
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• On this date:
• In 1483, Richard III began his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westminster Abbey).
• In 1870, the first section of Atlantic City, N.J.'s Boardwalk was opened to the public.
• In 1915, following a whirlwind courtship, poet T.S. Eliot married Vivienne Haigh-Wood in London. (The marriage proved disastrous, but the couple never divorced.)
• In 1925, Charlie Chaplin's classic comedy "The Gold Rush" premiered at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.
• In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia.
• In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
• In 1948, the Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
• In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.
• In 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate

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