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• Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 147th day of 2014. 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, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).
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• On this date:
• In 1896, 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.
• In 1929, Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, New Jersey.
• In 1933, the Chicago World's Fair, celebrating "A Century of Progress," officially opened. Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" was first released.
• 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.
• In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist play "Huis clos" (known in English as "No Exit") was first performed in Paris.
• In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pennsylvania, ignited a blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to burn this day.
• In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
• In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification for an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese control in 1997.

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