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In 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to pedestrian traffic (vehicles began crossing the next day).

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2023. There are 218 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in Hist

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Today is Saturday, May 27, the 147th day of 2023. There are 218 days left in the year.

What kind of day will tomorrow be? To find out what the stars say, read the forecast given for your birth sign.

Today’s highlight May 27, 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. On this date 1861: Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge in Baltimore, ruled that Presid...