• Today is Thursday, June 27, the 178th day of 2013. There are 187 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 27, 1963, President John F. Kennedy spent the first full day of a visit to Ireland, the land of his ancestors, stopping by the County Wexford home of his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, who'd emigrated to America in 1848.
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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 1942, the FBI announced the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island, N.Y. (All were tried and sentenced to death; six were executed while two were spared for turning themselves in and cooperating with U.S. authorities.)
• 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 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws and bar association rules that prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.
• In 1988, at least 56 people were killed when a commuter train ran into a stationary train at the Gare de Lyon terminal in Paris.
• In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation's highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the con

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