Volume 13 , Issue 26

This Day In History (June 27 & 28)

On this day in history we browse important events in history over at the archival features of the New York Times website for June 27 and 28. On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North. Go to article.

On June 27, 1880, Helen Keller, the blind and deaf American woman who became an accomplished writer and humanitarian, was born. Following her death on June 1, 1968, her obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

• 1844 Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
• 1893 - The New York stock market crashed.
• 1944 - American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans three weeks after D-Day.
• 1957 - More than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
• 1969 - Patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
• 1977 - Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI, was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
• 1980 - President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration.
• 1985 - Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., passed into history as officials decertified the road.

On June 28

• 1919 - Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I. Go to article
• 1836 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, died in Montpelier, Va., at age 85.
• 1838 - Britain's Queen Victoria was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• 1894 - Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees.
• 1902 - Broadway composer Richard Rodgers was born in New York City.
• 1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
• 1919 - Harry S. Truman married Elizabeth Virginia Wallace in Independence, Mo.
• 1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.

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