• Today is Wednesday, June 27, the 179th day of 2012. There are 187 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 27, 1942, the FBI announced the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore in Florida and Long Island, N.Y. (All were tried and sentenced to death; six were executed while two were spared for having turned themselves in and cooperating with U.S. authorities.)
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• On this date:
• In 1787, English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."
• In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
• In 1846, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
• In 1893, the New York stock market crashed.
• In 1922, the first Newberry Medal, recognizing excellence in children's literature, was awarded in Detroit to "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem van Loon.
• In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.
• In 1950, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
• In 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
• In 1972, the video game company Atari, Inc., was founded by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, Calif.
• In 1977, the Supreme Court struck down state laws and bar association rules that prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.
• In 1985, the legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to

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