Today is Friday, May 27, the 147th day of 2005. There are 218 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Friday, May 27, the 147th day of 2005. There are 218 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., is opened to the public.
In 1896, 255 people are killed when a tornado strikes St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill. In 1933, Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The Three Little Pigs" is first released. In 1935, the Supreme Court strikes down the National Industrial Recovery Act. In 1936, the Cunard liner Queen Mary leaves England on its maiden voyage. In 1941, amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency." In 1941, the British navy sinks the German battleship Bismarck off France, with a loss of 2,300 lives. In 1964, independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, dies. In 1985, in Beijing, representatives of Britain and China exchange instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the Chinese in 1997. In 1993, five people are killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy. In 1994, Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after spending two decades in exile.
May 27, 1980: George Bush, the last persistent challenger to former California Gov. Ronald Reagan in the Republican presidential primary, withdraws from the race. Bill Brock, national GOP chairman, predicts Reagan will "beat Jimmy Carter like a drum" in the November race. Meanwhile, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy continues his challenge of Carter for the Democratic nomination.
At the end of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, the national road toll is 404. Ohio and Pennsylvania each had 13 highway deaths.
John J. Durig, former owner of Durig's Market on Route 422 in Niles, dies at 91, leaving 193 descendants -- 10 children, 77 grandchildren and 106 great-grandchildren.
May 27, 1965: The Very Rev. Msgr. William A. Hughes, Cardinal Mooney High School's first principal, is honored at "Monsignor Hughes Day" at the school as he leaves to become superintendent of Youngstown Diocesan Schools.
A resolution before the Ohio Senate would place an issue on the Ohio ballot to ban Communists from holding any public office in the state.
A capital improvement program for the next six years totaling almost $97 million, mainly in highway and urban renewal projects, is adopted by Youngstown City Council.
May 27, 1955: Mrs. Dixie Lee Ramsey, 29 of Girard, mother of three, dies of bulbar polio, which doctors believe she may have contracted after one of her children was given polio vaccine by the family's doctor. Two batches of vaccine similar to that given to Mrs. Ramsey's daughter have been implicated in 20 deaths in the West, but none had been reported here.
Laurin D. Woodworth, president of the Youngstown Chamber of Commerce, tells city council it must address three priorities: financing the $10 million sewage treatment plant, balancing the city budget and rescuing mass transit from a slow death.
Allied Professions, an organization of various medical professions in Youngstown, renews efforts to get a city Board of Health headed by a commissioner who is a physician trained in public health.
May 27, 1930: Leonard T. Skeggs, general chairman of the Community Chest drive, tells a cheering crowd at the YMCA that the drive exceeded its ambitious goal of $400,000 by $112,664, more than 20 percent above the target.
Fifteen Beaver Township residents are subpoenaed as witnesses in a hearing on charges brought by Daniel Martin of North Lima that poll book tabulations were altered in a board of education race.
Catholics in the Chicago archdiocese are told they are permitted to eat meat of Memorial Day, which falls on a Friday. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Cleveland Diocese is away from the city and the question of a possible dispensation in his diocese must await his return.