On June 27, 1880, Helen Keller, who became a famous author and lecturer despite being left blind and deaf by illness when she was 19 months old, was born in Tuscumbia, Ala.
In 1927 Bob Keeshan, later TV’s “Captain Kangaroo,” was born in Lynbrook, N.Y.
In 1943 U.S. bombers attacked Nazi-occupied Athens in World War II.
In 1957 more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey ravaged coastal Louisiana and Texas.
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In 1977 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lawyers cannot constitutionally be prevented from advertising fees charged for routine legal services.
In 1979 the Supreme Court ruled that employers and unions could establish affirmative action programs that include the use of quotas.
In 1980 President Jimmy Carter signed legislation reviving the draft registration.
In 1991 Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.
In 1993 Iraqis pulled their dead from the rubble of buildings wrecked by U.S. missiles during an early-morning raid ordered by President Bill Clinton in reprisal for an assassination plot against former President George Bush.
