The 178th day of 2025 is today, Friday, June 27. The year has 187 days remaining.
Up to 600 people were killed when Hurricane Audrey, a Category 4 hurricane, struck coastal Louisiana and Texas on June 27, 1957.
Joseph Smith, a Mormon leader, and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844.
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A resolution urging member states to assist South Korea in fending off a North Korean invasion was voted by the U.N. Security Council in 1950.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black jurist to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, announced his retirement in 1991.
Dennis Rader, a BTK serial killer, entered a guilty plea in 2005 for ten killings that, starting in the 1970s, had terrorized Wichita, Kansas.
An amendment to the Constitution that would have prohibited desecration of the American flag expired in a cliffhanger in the U.S. Senate in 2006, missing the 67 votes required to be sent to the states for ratification.
A federal jury in Chicago found former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich guilty in 2011 of a number of corruption-related offenses, including allegedly attempting to sell or exchange President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. (In February 2020, President Donald Trump commuted Blagojevich’s 14-year jail sentence; in February 2025, Trump granted him a complete and unconditional pardon.)
Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court, whose decisions have ruled on abortion, gay rights, and other controversial topics, announced his retirement in 2018.
The Supreme Court decided in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District in 2022 that a high school football coach who wanted to kneel and pray on the field following games was entitled to First Amendment protection.
- Musician Bruce Johnston (The Beach Boys) is 83.
- Fashion designer Norma Kamali is 80.
- Fashion designer Vera Wang is 76.
- Actor Julia Duffy is 74.
- Actor Isabelle Adjani is 70.
- Cinematographer Janusz Kami ski is 66.
- Country singer Lorrie Morgan is 66.
- Actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai is 63.
- Writer-producer-director J.J. Abrams is 59.
- Actor Tobey Maguire is 50.
- Reality TV star Khlo Kardashian is 41.
- Actor Sam Claflin is 39.
- Actor Ed Westwick is 38.
- NFL linebacker Bobby Wagner is 35.
- Actor Madylin Sweeten ( Everybody Loves Raymond ) is 34.
- Singer-songwriter H.E.R. is 28.
- Actor Chandler Riggs ( The Walking Dead ) is 26.
