 Opendoors.org, which tracks Christian persecution around the globe, has placed Iran at number nine on its World Watch list and rates the persecution Christians faced in the Muslim-ruled country as extreme. Today is June the 27th. If today's your birthday, happy birthday to you. It was on this date, 1944, during World War II, American forces completed their capture of the French port of Cherbourg for the German army. 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that individual colleges could make their own TV package deals.