By The Associated Press
                - Today is Thursday, May 27, the 147th day of 1999. There are 218 days
                  left in the year.

                - On May 27, 1937 the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting
                  San Francisco and Marin County, Calif., was opened to the public.
                - In 1647 the first recorded American execution of a "witch" took
                  place in Massachusetts.
                - In 1818 American reformer Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who popularized the
                  "bloomers" garment that bears her name, was born in Homer, N.Y.
                - In 1896 255 people were killed when a tornado struck St. Louis, Mo.,
                  and East St. Louis, Ill.
                - In 1933 Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning animated short "The
                  Three Little Pigs" was released.
                - In 1935 the Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial
                  Recovery Act.
                - In 1936 the Cunard liner "Queen Mary" left England on its maiden
                  voyage.
                - In 1941, amid rising world tensions, President Roosevelt proclaimed
                  an "unlimited national emergency."
                - In 1941 the German battleship "Bismarck" sank off France, with a
                  loss of 2,300 lives.
                - In 1964 independent India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru,
                  died.
                - In 1985 in Beijing representatives of Britain and China exchanged
                  instruments of ratification on the pact returning Hong Kong to the
                  Chinese in 1997.
                - Ten years ago leaders of the Chinese student protest movement
                  proposed that demonstrators hold one more rally, then end their
                  occupation of Tiananmen Square, an idea that was later abandoned.
                - Five years ago Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn
                  returned to Russia to the emotional cheers of thousands after
                  spending two decades in exile.
                - One year ago Michael Fortier, the government's star witness in the
                  Oklahoma City bombing case, was sentenced to 12 years in prison
                  after apologizing for not warning anyone about the deadly plot.

                *Happy Birthday*
                - Novelist Herman Wouk is 84.
                - Actor Christopher Lee is 77.
                - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is 76.
                - Actress Lee Meriwether is 64.
                - Musician Ramsey Lewis is 64.
                - Actor Louis Gossett Junior is 63.
                - Country singer Don Williams is 60.
                - Actor Bruce Weitz is 56.
                - Singer Cilla Black is 56.
                - Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) is 55.
                - Singer Bruce Cockburn is 54.
                - Singer Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees) is 42.
                - Rock musician Eddie Harsch (The Black Crowes) is 42.
                - Rock singer-musician Neil Finn (The Finn Brothers) is 41.
                - Actress Cathy Silvers is 38.
                - Actor Todd Bridges is 34.