The Italian Ambassador to Norway, Stefano Nicoletti, is in Ny-Ålesund, the world’s northernmost inhabited village, to commemorate the centennial of the historic polar expedition of the airship Norge, ...
05.11.2026 Ansa.it
An Italian delegation and a Norwegian delegation met today in Ny-Ålesund, a thousand kilometers from the North Pole, in the Svalbard Islands, to celebrate, a century later, the Arctic flight of the ai...
05.11.2026 Ansa.it
May 12 carries profound meaning across many fields—from the celebration of nurses worldwide to devastating natural disasters, from game-changing album releases to historic political shifts, and from b...
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Today in History: 12 May 1215 – English barons serve an ultimatum on King John which eventually leads to the creation and signing of the Magna Carta 1551 – San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens (...
05.12.2026 Spiceworks.com
May 11th-12th marks the 100th anniversary of the first fully documented flight to the North Pole. With an international flight crew of 16 men, the Norge lifted off from an icy hangar located halfway between the North Pole and Norway. Read on as Realm of Ice and Sky author Buddy Levy recounts this exciting, historic journey. Early on the morning of May 11, 1926, Italian airship pilot Umberto Nobile was at the hangar at Kings Bay, Spitsbergen (halfway between northern Norway and the North Pole), a...
05.11.2026 Thehistoryreader.com