On June 27, 1844, Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Ill.
In 1847 New York and Boston were linked by telegraph.
In 1880 Helen Keller, the author and lecturer left blind and deaf by illness, was born in Tuscumbia, Ala.
In 1910 the White Sox played for the last time at the 39th Street Grounds.
In 1942 the FBI disclosed the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore from a submarine on New York’s Long Island.
In 1950 President Harry Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War.
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In 1973 former White House counsel John Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.
In 1986 the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled that the U.S. had broken international law and violated the sovereignty of Nicaragua by aiding the contras.
In 2001 actor Jack Lemmon died in Los Angeles at 76.
In 2002 John Entwistle, 57, the bass player who co-founded The Who, was found dead in a Las Vegas hotel room.
In 2005 the Supreme Court ruled that displaying the 10 Commandments on government property is constitutionally permissible in some cases. Also, Civil War historian Shelby Foote, 88, died in Memphis.
