Today is Saturday, June 27, the 178th day of 2026. On this day in history, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm in 1957, causing as many as 600 deaths.
Other Notable Events
In 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. 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 1967, Barclays Bank unveiled the first automated teller machine (ATM) in the town of Enfield, north London. In 1991, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announced his retirement. In 2005, BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders.
In 2006, a constitutional amendment to ban desecration of the American flag died in a U.S. Senate cliff-hanger. In 2011, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago of corruption charges. In 2018, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement.
In 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that a high school football coach who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games was protected by the First Amendment.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
