TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

June 27, 1957

Hurricane Audrey slammed into coastal Louisiana and Texas as a Category 4 storm; the official death toll from the storm was placed at 390, although a variety of state, federal and local sources have estimated the number of fatalities at between 400 and 600.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1844

Mormon leader Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, were killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.

1966

The Gothic soap opera “Dark Shadows” premiered on ABC-TV.

1991

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement. (His departure led to the contentious nomination of Clarence Thomas to succeed him.)