• Today is Sunday, May 27, the 148th day of 2012. There are 218 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 27, 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicular traffic began crossing the bridge the next day).
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• On this date:
• In 1861, Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that President Abraham Lincoln lacked the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus (Lincoln disregarded the ruling).
• In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.
• In 1912, golf legend Sam Snead was born in Ashwood, Va. Author John Cheever was born in Quincy, Mass.
• In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, N.J.
• In 1935, the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act.
• In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York.
• In 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood.
• In 1942, Navy Cook 3rd Class Doris "Dorie" Miller became the first African-American to receive the Navy Cross for his "extraordinary courage and disregard for his own personal safety" during Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. SS leader Reinhard Heydrich was seriously wounded in a bomb attack by Czech agents in Prague; he died eight days later. (The Nazis retaliated with mass executions.)
• In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignited a slow-burning blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to smolder to this day.

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