At present is Friday, June 27, the 178th day of 2025. There are 187 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Class 4 storm, inflicting as many as 600 deaths.
Additionally on this date:
In 1844, Mormon chief Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, had been killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
In 1950, the U.N. Safety Council handed a decision calling on member nations to assist South Korea repel an invasion from the North.
In 1991, U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice Thurgood Marshall, the primary Black jurist to take a seat on the nation’s highest courtroom, introduced his retirement.
In 2005, BTK serial killer Dennis Rader pleaded responsible to 10 murders that had unfold worry throughout Wichita, Kansas, starting within the Nineteen Seventies.
In 2006, a constitutional modification to ban desecration of the American flag died in a U.S. Senate cliff-hanger, falling one vote wanting the 67 wanted to ship it to states for ratification.
In 2011, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was convicted by a federal jury in Chicago on a variety of corruption fees, together with the allegation that he’d tried to promote or commerce President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. (Blagojevich was later sentenced to 14 years in jail; his sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in February 2020, and he acquired a full and unconditional pardon from Trump in February 2025.)
In 2018, U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote usually determined circumstances on abortion, homosexual rights and different contentious points, introduced his retirement.
In 2022, in Kennedy v. Bremerton College District, the Supreme Courtroom dominated {that a} highschool soccer coach who sought to kneel and pray on the sector after video games was protected by the First Modification.
At present’s Birthdays:
- Musician Bruce Johnston (The Seashore Boys) is 83.
- Clothier Norma Kamali is 80.
- Clothier Vera Wang is 76.
- Actor Julia Duffy is 74.
- Actor Isabelle Adjani is 70.
- Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński is 66.
- Nation singer Lorrie Morgan is 66.
- Actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai is 63.
- Author-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 59.
- Actor Tobey Maguire is 50.
- Actuality TV star Khloé Kardashian is 41.
- Actor Sam Claflin is 39.
- Actor Ed Westwick is 38.
- NFL linebacker Bobby Wagner is 35.
- Actor Madylin Sweeten (“All people Loves Raymond”) is 34.
- Singer-songwriter H.E.R. is 28.
- Actor Chandler Riggs (“The Strolling Useless”) is 26.