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• In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, died.
• In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchanged instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997.
• In 1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy.
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• Ten years ago: President George W. Bush commemorated Memorial Day at Normandy American Cemetery in France, where he honored the 9,387 men and women buried there.
• Five years ago: American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis in a raid on an al-Qaida hideout north of Baghdad. Dario Franchitti won a rain-abbreviated Indy 500. Broadway actress Gretchen Wyler died in Camarillo, Calif., at age 75.
• One year ago: Rich countries and international lenders said at a Group of Eight

summit in Deauville, France, they were aiming to provide $40 billion in funding for Arab nations trying to establish democracy, starting with Egypt and Tunisia. President Barack Obama, visiting Poland, honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis. Gil Scott-Heron, 62, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap music, died in New York. Actor Jeff Conaway died at a hospital in Encino, Calif.; he was 60.
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• Today's Birthdays: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk

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