• Today is Thursday, June 26, the 177th day of 2014. There are 188 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 26, 1974, the supermarket price scanner made its debut in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing 67 cents and bearing a Uniform Product Code (UPC) was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier Sharon Buchanan for customer Clyde Dawson. (The barcoded package of never-chewed gum is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.)
• 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, New Jersey'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 1944, the Republican national convention opened in Chicago with a keynote speech by California Governor Earl Warren. In an unusual Major League Baseball experiment, the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees played a three-way (or "tri-cornered") exhibition game at the Polo Grounds to benefit war bonds. (Final score: Dodgers 5, Yankees 1, Giants 0.)
• In 1945, the charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
• In 1950, President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean War.
• In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his

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