Washington, United States. Several major events occurred on May 27 over the years, including the opening of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in 1937 and the death of Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964.
Golden Gate Bridge opens in 1937
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, with 200,000 people crossing it on its first day. Construction of the bridge had taken four years, four months and 22 days.
Kenyatta elected in 1963
In 1963, Jomo Kenyatta was elected the first prime minister of a self-governing Kenya. He became state president on independence from Britain the following year.
Nehru dies in 1964
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after independence, died in 1964 at the age of 74.
Events in 1997 and 1999
In 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, opened the Richard Attenborough centre for Disability and Arts in Leicester. In 1999, the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague confirmed it had indicted Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal. The same year, da Vinci’s The Last Supper was unveiled in Milan after 20 years of restoration work.
Later developments
In 2002, Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali won approval for constitutional reforms that enabled him to rule practically for life. In 2005, Indonesia and Aceh separatists reached agreement on crucial political issues in a step toward ending one of Asia’s longest-running armed struggles. In 2007, International Cricket Council President Percy Sonn died at 57.