TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 27, 1937

The newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic.

ALSO ON THIS DATE 1896

255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.

1929

Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. married Anne Morrow in Englewood, New Jersey.

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.

1935

The U.S. Supreme Court, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, unanimously struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act, a key component of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal” legislative program.

1936

The Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England on its maiden voyage to New York. The first Aer Lingus flight took place as a de Havilland Dragon carried five passengers from Dublin to Bristol, England.

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 with the loss of more than 1,400 lives. Amid rising world tensions, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed an “unlimited national emergency” during a radio address from the White House.