By The Associated Press

              - Today is Sunday, June 27, the 178th day of 1999. There are 187 days
                left in the year.

              - On June 27, 1950, President Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy
                into the Korean conflict following a call from the U.N. Security
                Council for member states to help South Korea repel an invasion from
                the North.
              - In 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 wires.
              - In 1893 the New York stock market crashed.
              - In 1942 the FBI announced the capture of eight Nazi saboteurs who
                had been put ashore from a submarine on New York's Long Island.
              - In 1944 American forces completed their capture of the French port
                of Cherbourg from the Germans.
              - In 1957 more than 500 people were killed when Hurricane "Audrey"
                slammed through coastal Louisiana and Texas.
              - In 1969 patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's
                Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered the
                birth of the homosexual rights movement.
              - In 1973 former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate
                Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White
                House.
              - In 1977 the Supreme Court struck down state laws and bar association
                rules that had prohibited lawyers from advertising their fees for
                routine services.
              - In 1980 President Carter signed legislation reviving draft
                registration.

              - Ten years ago President Bush, criticizing a Supreme Court decision
                upholding the right to desecrate the American flag as a form of
                political protest, called for a constitutional amendment to protect
                the Stars and Stripes.
              - Five years ago U.S. Coast Guard cutters intercepted 1,330 Haitian
                boat people on the high seas in one of the busiest days since
                refugees began leaving Haiti following a 1991 military coup.
                President Clinton replaced White House chief of staff Mack McLarty
                with budget director Leon Panetta.
              - One year ago during a joint news conference beamed live to hundreds
                of millions of homes across China, President Clinton and President
                Jiang Zemin offered an uncensored airing of differences on human
                rights, freedom, trade and Tibet. An earthquake in Ceyhan, Turkey,
                killed 144 people.
 

              *Happy Birthday*
              - "Captain Kangaroo," Bob Keeshan, is 72.
              - Business executive Ross Perot is 69.
              - Opera singer Anna Moffo is 65.
              - Former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. John
                Shalikashvili, is 63.
              - Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is 61.
              - Singer-musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 57.
              - Actress Julia Duffy is 48.
              - Actress Isabelle Adjani is 44.
              - Country singer Lorrie Morgan is 40.
              - Actor Brian Drillinger is 39.
              - Actor Tobey Maguire ("Pleasantville") is 24.
              - Actress Madylin Sweeten is 8.