Today in History.....June 27

On this day in …

* 2002, Joe Gringo's daughter was born, the 2nd of 3 kids!

* 1847, New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires

* 1893, the New York stock market crashed

* 1944, during World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans

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

* 1957, more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas

* 1973, former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House

* 1980, President Carter signed legislation reviving draft registration

* 1996, President Clinton and other Group of Seven leaders meeting in Lyon, France, pledged solidarity against terrorism following a truck bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 Americans. ALSO: A Dallas police officer was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill football star Michael Irvin. (Johnnie Hernandez later pleaded guilty to solicitation of capital murder. He was sentenced to serve two concurrent six-year prison terms, and was paroled in 1998.)

* 2001, President Bush urged Ariel Sharon during a White House meeting to take the next step toward Middle East peace talks, but the Israeli prime minister said violence had to end first. It never did and Sharon went on to surrender land won in a war after the Jewish state was attacked. ALSO: George Trofimoff, a retired Army officer, was convicted in Tampa, Fla., of selling Cold War secrets to Moscow over two decades. (Trofimoff, who maintains his innocence, was sentenced to life in prison.)

* 2005, the Supreme Court ruled, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, that displaying the Ten Commandments on government property is constitutionally permissible in some cases but not in others. ALSO:
BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded guilty to 10 murders that spread fear across Wichita, Kan., beginning in the 1970s. (Rader later received multiple life sentences.)