Today is Thursday, May 27, the 147th day of 2010. There are 218 days left in the year.

On this date

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 first released.

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.

In 1993, five people were killed in a bombing at the Uffizi museum of art in Florence, Italy.

Thought for Today

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." — Will Durant, American historian (1885-1981).