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June 25, 1928

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SWEDISH PLANE RESCUES NOBILE FROM ICE, THEN UPSETS IN ATTEMPT TO GET COMRADES; SEARCH YIELDS NO TRACE OF AMUNDSEN; REPORTS TWO MEN RESCUED A Copenhagen Dispatch Says Another Was Taken Off With Nobile. COMMANDER ON BASE SHIP Lundborg Unhurt in Crash on Second Trip to Ice Floe for More Castaways. AMUNDSEN MISSING 6 DAYS Neither Do Planes or Ships See Anything of Two Other Parties Lost in Arctic.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nobile rescued; Lt E Lundborg unhurt in crash on 2d trip to get comrades; rept by Capt Tornberg, head of Swedish expedition; Nobile's leg reported broken; no trace of other 2 groups or of Amundsen party; pors of Swedish fliers aiding work

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Notable Births

Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)

1928Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)[†]

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures.

Michel Brault

1928Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013)[†]

Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.

Peyo

1928Peyo, Belgian author and illustrator, created The Smurfs (died 1992)[†]

Pierre Culliford was a Belgian comics writer and artist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic book series The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in the latter of which the Smurfs made their first appearance.