Today In History

Sat., June 27, 1998

1950: President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

1844: Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.

1847: New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.

1893: The New York stock market crashed.

1942: The FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who had been put ashore from a submarine on New York’s Long Island.

1944: American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.

1957: More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane “Audrey” slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.

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