first woman (from 1991 to 1995) to have served as the Speaker of the House in that nation's parliament, the Althing; in Reykjavik (alive in 2022) Monday, July 4, 1927 Sukarno (born Kusno Sosrodihardjo) founded the Perserikatan Nasional Indonesia, seeking independence of the Dutch East Indies colony from the Netherlands. In 1945, he would become the first President of Indonesia. The Lockheed Vega, first airplane manufactured by the Lockheed Corporation, made its inaugural flight, with Eddie Belande taking the plane up from Mines Field in Los Angeles. Joseph Goebbels published the first issue of the Nazi newspaper, Der Angriff, which promoted Goebbels' views until its last issue in April 1945. Born: Neil Simon, American playwright; in the Bronx, New York (d. 2018) Gina Lollobrigida, Italian and American film actress; in Subiaco (d. 2023) Tuesday, July 5, 1927 The Verein fur Raumschiffahrt (VfR, or Association for Space Travel) was founded at the Goldenes Zepter tavern in Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland) by various German rocket scientists including Hermann Oberth, Walter Hohmann and Johannes Winkler, Northwest Airlines began passenger service when businessman Byron Webster bought a ticket to fly from Minneapolis to Chicago. The plane took more than 12 hours to complete its journey, after stops in the Wisconsin cities of LaCrosse, Madison and Milwaukee, and Webster arrived in Chicago the next morning at 2:30. Northwest would become one of the largest airlines in the United States, before being merged into Delta Air Lines in 2010. The S.S. Presidente Saavedra, the only ship of the Bolivian Naval Force, sank in the harbor outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Inventor Stanley S. Jenkins applied for the patent for the process that he used to create the corn dog and other deep-fried foods that could be carried on a stick. Under the title "Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus", Jenkins wrote in his application that his invention was for "an apparatus in which a new and novel edible food product may be deep fried... consisting of an article of food impaled on a stick and coated with batter," and added that "I have discovered that articles of food such, for instance, as wieners, boiled ham, hard boiled eggs, cheese, sliced peaches, pineapples, bananas and like fruit, and cherries, dates, figs, strawberries, etc., when impaled on sticks and dipped in a batter... the resultant food product on a stick for a handle is a clean,