On This Day | 27 May

On this day:

1851: The world’s first chess tournament is held in London

1937: The Golden Gate Bridge is opened

2017: In Bangalore, India, white puffy toxic foam begins spilling out of Varthur Lake onto city streets

Born on this day:

1923: Henry Kissinger, German/American politician, Nobel Prize laureate

Gone on this day:

1919: Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer from Andhra Pradesh

1964: Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) dies of an assumed heart attack at 74