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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.


||1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.


||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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