Today is Monday, June 27, the 178th day of 2011. There are 187 days left in the year.
1693 ― First woman's magazine, ``The Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1940 ― USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar
1942 ― FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs from a sub off N.Y.'s Long Island
1944 ― Cherbourg, France, captured by Allies
1950 ― President Truman orders Air Force and Navy into Korean conflict
1950 ― U.N. Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea
1954 ― First atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1966 ― First sci-fi soap opera, ``Dark Shadows," premiers
1986 ― World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1990 ― Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims