CAMILLE BOHANNON
The Golden Gate Bridge, which spans the San Francisco
Bay and connects the city to its northern suburbs, is one
of the world’s most famous structures. Its construction
78 years ago over a deep, treacherous channel was a
marvel of modern engineering.
In this photo, pedestrians walk across the bridge on May
27, 1937 — one day before it opened to vehicular traffic.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic on this
day in 1937. The bridge connected San Francisco and Marin
County in California.
In The Hague, Netherlands, on this day in 1999, a war crimes tribunal indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for atrocities in Kosovo.
It was the first time that a sitting head of state had been charged with such a crime.
On this day in 1941. the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by
British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
Queen Mary sailed on her maiden voyage on this day in 1936 captured the
Blue Riband in August of that year; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937
and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952 when she was beaten by the
new SS United States. With the outbreak of the Second World War, she was
converted into a troopship and ferried Allied soldiers for the duration of the
war.
It was on this day in 1995.
