Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 148th day of 2008. There are 218 days left in the year. On this date

Today is Tuesday, May 27, the 148th day of 2008. 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 pedestrian traffic. (Vehicular traffic begins crossing the bridge the next day.)

In 1818, American reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the garment that bears her name — “bloomers” — is born in Homer, N.Y. In 1896, 255 people are killed when a tornado strikes St. Louis and East St. Louis, Ill. In 1933, Walt Disney’s Academy Award-winning animated short “The Three Little Pigs” is first released. In 1936, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary leaves England on its maiden voyage to New York. 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 more than 2,100 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.

May 27, 1983: Youngstown Water Commissioner Carl Pillin threatens legal action against political subdivisions that use fire hydrants for purposes other than emergencies. The threat was prompted by the use of a hydrant to fill a swimming pool at an Austintown apartment complex.

The Niles Board of Education names John L. Sittig, the schools’ business manager, to be the new superintendent. He will assume both the superintendent and business manager duties at a salary of $40,000.

May 27, 1968: Herbert Hill, national labor secretary of the NAACP, calls for a unified movement to end Negro “powerlessness” in organized labor during a banquet of the Negro American Labor Council at the Voyager Motor Inn.

Burglars break into the home of Police Capt. John B. Thomas on Early Road and take nearly $3,000, four gold coins and five guns and ammunition.

Lonnie Marie Jarvis, 21, of Youngstown is named “Miss Warren” in the 10th annual pageant sponsored by the Warren Jaycees at Western Reserve High School.

May 27, 1958: The heavy brass Mahoning County courthouse doors are going to be replaced and county commissioners are seeking estimates on lighter aluminum doors.

A crowd of 500 attends the groundbreaking for the new $57,000 swimming pool for the Poland Swimming Club on Clingan Road, a quarter mile north of Rt. 224.

May 27, 1933: A jury of nine women and three men deliberate for five hours before finding former Mayor William G. Reese not guilty of assault with intent to kill Mrs. Anna Washok, a 71-year-old McKinley Avenue widow.

A young man about 25 years old who had lived for four months at the Columbiana County Home after being found wandering in East Liverpool, dies. He is buried in an unmarked grave at the at the home. The youth spoke only one word during his time at the home: “bread.”

With the business climate showing improvement, another city soup kitchen, the W. Federal Street station, is being closed, leaving three in operation.