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Events on Friday 25 May 1928 1
1928Airship Italia disasterNobile's polar airship crashes on the Arctic iceReturning from the North Pole, Umberto Nobile's airship Italia crashed on the pack ice north of Svalbard. The survivors spent weeks on the ice before a Soviet icebreaker rescued them. Roald Amundsen died while flying to join the search.