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||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||1926: The Italian-built airship ''Norge'' becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. | ||
||1928: Harold Cohen born 1 May 1928 ... a British-born artist who was noted as the creator of AARON, a computer program designed to produce art autonomously. His work in the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and art | |||
||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine ''U-507''. | ||1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker SS ''Virginia'' is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine ''U-507''. | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.