Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2006. There are 218 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2006. 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 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; some three dozen paintings are ruined or damaged. In 1995, actor Christopher Reeve is left paralyzed when he is thrown from his horse during a jumping event in Charlottesville, Va. In 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin negotiates a cease-fire to the war in Chechnya in his first meeting with the rebels' leader. In 2001, Indy rookie Helio Castroneves leads teammate and fellow Brazilian Gil de Ferran in a 1-2 Roger Penske finish, giving the renowned owner a triumphant return to the Indianapolis 500.
May 27, 1981: A new four-year contract covering some 100 nurses, nurses aides, kitchen help and janitorial works at Hill View Manor is ratified by the Lawrence County Board of Commissioners.
Weatherbee Coats Inc. is launching a women's suit line and teaming up with a New York design and production consultant firm, President Herbert Cohen announces.
Despite sunny skies and temperatures of 75 degrees, a relatively small crowd turns out for the annual Memorial Day parade in downtown Youngstown.
May 27, 1966: Michael Collins, 31, kills his wife, their four children and himself in the family's Warren Township home.
Dr. Howard Hanson, internationally known composer, educator and conductor, will be the speaker at the 44th spring commencement of Youngstown University in Stambaugh Auditorium.
Comon Pleas Judge Sidney Rigelhaupt rules that Youngstown City Council's legislation setting $1,500 as the annual fee for coin operated amusement devices "cannot be justified in honesty and good sense."
Harold M. Jones Jr., prominent businessman and civic leader in North Jackson, is killed when his plane crashes during a landing at Youngstown Executive Airport, where he was a student pilot.
May 27, 1956: I.W. Abel, secretary-treasurer of United Steelworkers of America, says at a dedication dinner for the new Local 1330 Memorial Hall at 1080 Salt Spring Road, that the union "may have to fight" to gain its 1956 contract objectives.
Dr. Roland A. Luhman, pastor of the Pilgrim Collegiate Church, delivers the baccalaureate address to 420 members of the graduating class of Youngstown University in the C.J. Strouss Memorial Auditorium.
Four teenagers are injured when the two cars they are riding in crash through the front wall of a home on East Brook in New Castle. Police believe the cars were racing.
May 27, 1931: About 25,000 people -- the greatest number of givers on record -- push the Youngstown Community Fund drive over its goal of $550,000. Only days before the deadline, Chairman Leonard Skeggs expressed little hope for success.
Mrs. Armin Elsaesser is elected president of the Young Women's Christian Association.
East Liverpool City Council rejects a petition signed by 200 merchants and clerks asking for adoption of daylight saving time during June, July and August. The question will be put on the November general election ballot.