TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

June 27, 1950

The U. N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.

ON THIS DATE

1942

The FBI announced the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs put ashore in Florida and Long Island, New York.

1955

Illinois enacted the nation’s first automobile seat belt law. ( The law did not require cars to have seat belts, but that they be made seat belt- ready.)

1985

The legendary Route 66, which originally stretched from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, passed into history as officials decertified the road.

1991

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.