TUESDAY INHISTORY

Today is Tuesday, June 27, the 178th day of 2017. There are 187 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On 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.

On this date:

In 1787, English historian Edward Gibbon completed work on his six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .”

In 1864, Confederate forces repelled a frontal assault by Union troops in the Civil War Battle of Ken ne saw Mountain in Georgia.

In 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans.

In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws and bar association rules that prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for routine services.

In 1986, the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled the U.S. had broken international lawand violated the sovereignty of Nicaragua by aiding the contras.

In 1990, NASA said a flaw in the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was preventing the instrument from achieving optimum focus.

In 1991, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black jurist to sit on the nation’s highest court, announced his retirement.

Ten years ago: Former Treasury chief Gordon Brown became British prime minister.

Five years ago: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and former Irish Republican Army commander M art in Mc Guinness offered each other the hand of peace during a private meeting inside Belfast’s riverside Lyric Theatre.

One year ago: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down 5-3 Texas’ widely replicated rules that sharply reduced abortion clinics in the nation’s second-most-populous state.

Today’s Birthdays: Business executive Ross Perot is 87. Singer-musician Bruce Johnston is 75. Fashion designer Vera Wang is 68. Actress Julia Duffy is 66. Writerproducer-director J.J. Abrams is 51. Olympic gold and bronze medal figure skater Viktor Petrenko is 48. Actor Tobey Maguire is 42. Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian is 33. Actor Chandler Riggs is 18.

Thought for Today: “A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill?” — John Steinbeck, American author (1902-1968).