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1918 in Norway
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Events in the year 1918 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Norsk Hydros artificial fertilizer production at Glomfjord is bought by the Norwegian government, in 1947 it is leased back to Hydro. This activity is today Yara International, the 1918 Parliamentary election takes place. 19 August - Bjørn Egge, military officer 8 September - Kjølv Egeland, politician 18 September – Berit Brænne, actress,8 October - Halfdan Hegtun, radio personality, comedian, writer and former politician 15 October – Rolf Schjerven, politician
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1917 in Norway
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Events in the year 1917 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII the Bratsberg Line began rail traffic between Eidanger and Notodden, the line was closed in 2001. 2 April - Lillestrøm SK football club is founded after the merger of two football clubs. 19 May - Rosenborg BK football club is founded,12 May – Johan Berg, military officer
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Norway
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The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land, until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Isle of Man until 1266, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres and a population of 5,258,317. The country shares a long border with Sweden. Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway, erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution, the kingdom is established as a merger of several petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,144 years, Norway has both administrative and political subdivisions on two levels, counties and municipalities. The Sámi people have an amount of self-determination and influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament. Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States, the country maintains a combination of market economy and a Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system. Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the countrys gross domestic product. On a per-capita basis, Norway is the worlds largest producer of oil, the country has the fourth-highest per capita income in the world on the World Bank and IMF lists. On the CIAs GDP per capita list which includes territories and some regions, from 2001 to 2006, and then again from 2009 to 2017, Norway had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world. It also has the highest inequality-adjusted ranking, Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity and the Democracy Index. Norway has two names, Noreg in Nynorsk and Norge in Bokmål. The name Norway comes from the Old English word Norðrveg mentioned in 880, meaning way or way leading to the north. In contrasting with suðrvegar southern way for Germany, and austrvegr eastern way for the Baltic, the Anglo-Saxon of Britain also referred to the kingdom of Norway in 880 as Norðmanna land. This was the area of Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, and because of him
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1920 in Norway
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Events in the year 1920 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII9 February – The League of Nations gives Spitsbergen to Norway, 17–19 June – The Centre Party was founded. Aalesund ship is discovered embedded in the south of Ålesund. 29 March – Hans Methlie Michelsen, judge 4 April – Dagfinn Grønoset, author 8 April – Kristian Asdahl, politician 9 April – Otto Nes,10 April - Jakob Aano, politician 12 April – Audun Hetland, illustrator. Platou, electrical engineer and politician 13 July – Jens Christian Magnus, military officer and politician
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1921 in Norway
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Events in the year 1921 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII6 May - A general strike begins in Norway,17 September - the Dovre Line was opened. 18 September - Nidareid train disaster on the Trondhjem-Størenbanen railway line, six people were killed in this, the first serious passenger train accident in Norway The 1921 Parliamentary election takes place. 30 June - Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet 10 July – Eva Kløvstad,10 October - Gunnar Thoresen, bobsledder 17 October – Edel Hætta Eriksen, schoolteacher and politician. 11 November - Trygve Olsen, politician 27 November - Aud Alvær, politician 28 November - Olav Hagen, cross country skier, Gunnar S. Dvergsdal, politician Waldemar Hansteen, architect Gjert Holsen, politician
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1922 in Norway
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Events in the year 1922 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII8 January - The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded,30 November - The establishment of Norwegian government-owned alcoholic beverage retailer Vinmonopolet. Fridtjof Nansen is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work as a League of Nations High Commissioner, municipal and county elections are held throughout the country
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Haakon VII of Norway
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Haakon VII, known as Prince Carl of Denmark until 1905, was a Danish prince who became the first king of Norway after the 1905 dissolution of the union with Sweden. He reigned from November 1905 until his death in September 1957, as one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people. He played a role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance to the Nazi invasion. He became King of Norway before his father and older brother became kings of Denmark, during his reign, he saw his father, his brother and his nephew, Frederick IX, ascend the throne of Denmark, respectively in 1906,1912 and 1947. He died at the age of 85 on 21 September 1957 and he was succeeded by his only son, Olav V. Prince Carl of Denmark was the son of King Frederik VIII of Denmark. Furthermore, he was a brother of Christian X, a paternal grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark. Prince Carl was born at Charlottenlund Palace near Copenhagen and he belonged to the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg branch of the House of Oldenburg. The House of Oldenburg had been the Danish royal family since 1448, the house was originally from northern Germany, where the Glucksburg branch held their small fief. The family had permanent links with Norway beginning from the late Middle Ages, several of his paternal ancestors had been kings of independent Norway. Christian Frederick, who was King of Norway briefly in 1814, Prince Carl was raised in the royal household in Copenhagen and educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy. Their son, Prince Alexander, the future Crown Prince Olav, was born on 2 July 1903, gradually, Prince Carl became the leading candidate, largely because he was descended from independent Norwegian kings. The new royal family of Norway left Denmark on the Danish royal yacht Dannebrog, at Oscarsborg Fortress, they boarded the Norwegian naval ship Heimdal. After a three-day journey, they arrived in Kristiania early on the morning of 25 November 1905, two days later, Haakon took the oath as Norways first independent king in 518 years. The coronation of Haakon and Maud took place in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on 22 June 1906, King Haakon gained much sympathy from the Norwegian people. Although the Constitution of Norway vests the King with considerable executive powers, Haakon confined himself to non-partisan roles without interfering in politics, a practice continued by his son and grandson. However, his long rule gave him moral authority as a symbol of the countrys unity. Haakon, Maud and Crown Prince Olav became interested in skiing and this sport is often viewed as typically Norwegian
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Zinc
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Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is the first element in group 12 of the periodic table, in some respects zinc is chemically similar to magnesium, both elements exhibit only one normal oxidation state, and the Zn2+ and Mg2+ ions are of similar size. Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in Earths crust and has five stable isotopes, the most common zinc ore is sphalerite, a zinc sulfide mineral. The largest workable lodes are in Australia, Asia, and the United States, Zinc is refined by froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity. Zinc metal was not produced on a large scale until the 12th century in India and was unknown to Europe until the end of the 16th century, the mines of Rajasthan have given definite evidence of zinc production going back to the 6th century BC. To date, the oldest evidence of pure zinc comes from Zawar, in Rajasthan, alchemists burned zinc in air to form what they called philosophers wool or white snow. The element was named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke. German chemist Andreas Sigismund Marggraf is credited with discovering pure metallic zinc in 1746, work by Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta uncovered the electrochemical properties of zinc by 1800. Corrosion-resistant zinc plating of iron is the application for zinc. Other applications are in batteries, small non-structural castings. A variety of compounds are commonly used, such as zinc carbonate and zinc gluconate, zinc chloride, zinc pyrithione, zinc sulfide. Zinc is an essential mineral perceived by the public today as being of exceptional biologic and public health importance, Zinc deficiency affects about two billion people in the developing world and is associated with many diseases. In children, deficiency causes growth retardation, delayed sexual maturation, infection susceptibility, enzymes with a zinc atom in the reactive center are widespread in biochemistry, such as alcohol dehydrogenase in humans. Consumption of excess zinc can cause ataxia, lethargy and copper deficiency, Zinc is a bluish-white, lustrous, diamagnetic metal, though most common commercial grades of the metal have a dull finish.6 pm. The metal is hard and brittle at most temperatures but becomes malleable between 100 and 150 °C, above 210 °C, the metal becomes brittle again and can be pulverized by beating. Zinc is a conductor of electricity. For a metal, zinc has relatively low melting and boiling points, the melting point is the lowest of all the transition metals aside from mercury and cadmium. Many alloys contain zinc, including brass, Other metals long known to form binary alloys with zinc are aluminium, antimony, bismuth, gold, iron, lead, mercury, silver, tin, magnesium, cobalt, nickel, tellurium, and sodium
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Glomfjord
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Glomfjord is a village in the municipality of Meløy in Nordland county, Norway. The industrial community is located along Norwegian County Road 17 at the head of the Glomfjorden, the 1. 13-square-kilometre village has a population of 1,120. The population density is 991 inhabitants per square kilometre, the village is based around the Glomfjord hydroelectric power plant, which was the target of the 1942 commando raid entitled Operation Musketoon. Norsk Hydro, Norways greatest industry, established fertilizer production here in 1912, the facilities were bought by the state in 1918, but leased to Hydro in 1947. Today a conglomerate of industries are found in Glomfjord Industry Park, the Forså and Sundsfjord hydroelectric power stations were also built to supply power to industry in Glomfjord in 1963. Although located north of the Arctic Circle and not far from Norways second largest glacier Svartisen, average annual rainfall in Glomfjord is about 2,069 millimetres, with mean annual temperature 5 °C. The temperature is seldom below −10 °C during winter time, during summer time the sun does not set. The midnight sun also makes the plants grow faster, Glomfjord has a hotel, a bistro, a WaterLand, and some beautiful mountains for skiing and snowboarding in the winter. There is touring with fishing, climbing, and other relaxing activities in the mountains during summer, Svartisen and the lake Storglomvatnet are tourist destinations also
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Olav Duun
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Olav Duun was a noteworthy author of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. He once lacked only one vote to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Duun was born in the traditional district Ytre Namdal, on Jøa an island in the Namsen Fjord in Fosnes municipality, Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. His parents were Johannes Antonius Duun and Ellen Duun, Olav Duun was born Ole Johannesen Raaby. Duun was the oldest in a family of eight siblings, during his years as a boy his family lived at several farms on the island, the last one being Duun. He adopted the last name Duun when he left the island to start his training as a teacher and he attended the state school at Trøndelag. In 1901, Duun took a position as a teacher at Levanger in Nord-Trøndelag county. He completed the graduate teacher examination in 1904, in 1908, he was hired by the Ramberg school at Botne in Vestfold, where he combined teaching profession with writing poetry. He worked as a teacher in Holmestrand until 1927, at the age of fifty, he retired in order to devote his time to writing. Duun was known as one of the writers of 20th-century Norwegian fiction. He stands as a synthesis of the Norwegian folk spirit. Duun wrote in Landsmål, an amalgam of peasant dialects that developed into Nynorsk, in the period 1907-38 he published 25 novels, four short story collections and two childrens books. Many of his books incorporate the dialects of his subjects, peasants, fishermen and his novels analyze the psychological and spiritual characteristics of rural, peasant life. The most notable works are his six volume, The People of Juvik and this work was translated into English and published as, The Trough of the Waves, The Blind Man, The Big Wedding, Odin in Fairyland, Odin Grows Up and Storm. Olav and Emma Duuns House is the residence of Olav Duun and his wife Emma. There is a library containing manuscripts, letters, and other related to the writing career of Olav Duun. The first floor is at the disposal of recipients of the Duun Scholarship, in the garden, a memorial park has been constructed containing commemorative rocks with lyrical quotes from Olav Duun’s poems. The address is 20 Olav Duun Street
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Laila Schou Nilsen
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Laila Schou Nilsen was a Norwegian speed skater, alpine skier and tennis player. She was one of the pioneers in Norwegian as well as speed skating for women. Laila Schou Nilsen won the last unofficial World Championship for women at Oslo Frogner stadion in 1935, at the World Championships of Davos, Switzerland in 1937, she won all four distances in world record time. She also won the World Championships in Oslo in 1938, the record on the 500 m lasted until 1955, when Tamara Rylova of the Soviet Union beat it at the Medeo track in Alma Ata. Her record on 1,500 m lasted until 1950, Laila Schou Nilsen became Norwegian champion of speed skating in 1935,1937,1939, and 1940. At the 1936 Winter Olympic Games, she won the bronze in the alpine combined. For this, she was the year awarded the Egebergs Ærespris for her achievements in alpine skiing, in speed skating, but also in tennis. After the World War II Laila Schou Nilsen competed in skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. She was also a member of the team in handball
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2003 in Norway
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Events in the year 2003 in Norway. 25 May – After docking in Miami at 05,00, SS Norway is severely damaged by an explosion at 06,30, that kills 7. A few weeks later it is announced by NCL that she will never again as a commercial ocean liner. 15 September – Norwegian county council elections,15 September – Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. 1 December – King Harald V was announced to be suffering from bladder cancer,8 December – King Harald V successfully undergoes a 5½-hour cancer operation in which his bladder is removed and a new one constructed, at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo. 10 December – Shirin Ebadi of Iran receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. 12 December – Keiko, the orca whale who starred in the 1993 film Free Willy, dies of pneumonia while in the Taknes Bay located at the Arasvikfjord in Norway, where he had lived in the recent years. 6 March – Claus Helberg, resistance fighter and mountain guide 17 March – Anne-Olaug Ingeborgrud, politician 29 March – Herbjørn Sørebø, media personality
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Per Bergsland
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Sgt Per Bergsland was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the Great Escape. During in the 1930s Bergsland competed in orienteering, representing the club IL Heming, in 1939 he placed second at the individual Norwegian championship in orienteering held at Modum. He was born in Bærum, but resided at Ullernåsen, per Bergsland served as an instructor at flight school in Canada before he transferred to the RAF Ferry Command, where he was assigned to fly with a combat unit. As a member of No.332 Squadron RAF stationed at North Weald airfield, after arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as Peter Rockland, in order to protect his family in Norway from German reprisals. In what later became known as the Great Escape, he was among the 76 prisoners of war who managed to escape from the camp, only three made it to neutral countries and freedom. He and another Norwegian pilot Jens Müller managed to escape to Sweden, the third escapee was the Dutchman Bram van der Stok, who escaped to Spain with the help of the French resistance. The remaining 73 escapees were captured, adolf Hitler wanted to execute them all, but Hermann Göring persuaded him not to, in the end, fifty were shot as an example. The remaining 23 were held in the custody of the Gestapo before being sent off to other camps,17 were returned to Stalag Luft III, four were sent to Sachsenhausen, and two to Colditz Castle. In 1946, Per Bergsland began as a pilot in Fred Olsen Air Transport and he later became Chief Pilot and Operational Manager. Per Bergsland became CEO of Fred Olsen Air Transport in 1968 and CEO of Widerøe from 1970 to 1981
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Royal Air Force
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The Royal Air Force is the United Kingdoms aerial warfare force. Formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, following victory over the Central Powers in 1918 the RAF emerged as, at the time, the largest air force in the world. The RAF describe its mission statement as, an agile, adaptable and capable Air Force that, person for person, is second to none, and that makes a decisive air power contribution in support of the UK Defence Mission. The mission statement is supported by the RAFs definition of air power, Air power is defined as the ability to project power from the air and space to influence the behaviour of people or the course of events. Today the Royal Air Force maintains a fleet of various types of aircraft. The majority of the RAFs rotary-wing aircraft form part of the tri-service Joint Helicopter Command in support of ground forces, most of the RAFs aircraft and personnel are based in the UK, with many others serving on operations or at long-established overseas bases. It was founded on 1 April 1918, with headquarters located in the former Hotel Cecil, during the First World War, by the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps, at that time it was the largest air force in the world. The RAFs naval aviation branch, the Fleet Air Arm, was founded in 1924, the RAF developed the doctrine of strategic bombing which led to the construction of long-range bombers and became its main bombing strategy in the Second World War. The RAF underwent rapid expansion prior to and during the Second World War, under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of December 1939, the air forces of British Commonwealth countries trained and formed Article XV squadrons for service with RAF formations. Many individual personnel from countries, and exiles from occupied Europe. By the end of the war the Royal Canadian Air Force had contributed more than 30 squadrons to serve in RAF formations, additionally, the Royal Australian Air Force represented around nine percent of all RAF personnel who served in the European and Mediterranean theatres. In the Battle of Britain in 1940, the RAF defended the skies over Britain against the numerically superior German Luftwaffe, the largest RAF effort during the war was the strategic bombing campaign against Germany by Bomber Command. Following victory in the Second World War, the RAF underwent significant re-organisation, during the early stages of the Cold War, one of the first major operations undertaken by the Royal Air Force was in 1948 and the Berlin Airlift, codenamed Operation Plainfire. Before Britain developed its own nuclear weapons the RAF was provided with American nuclear weapons under Project E and these were initially armed with nuclear gravity bombs, later being equipped with the Blue Steel missile. Following the development of the Royal Navys Polaris submarines, the nuclear deterrent passed to the navys submarines on 30 June 1969. With the introduction of Polaris, the RAFs strategic nuclear role was reduced to a tactical one and this tactical role was continued by the V bombers into the 1980s and until 1998 by Tornado GR1s. For much of the Cold War the primary role of the RAF was the defence of Western Europe against potential attack by the Soviet Union, with many squadrons based in West Germany. With the decline of the British Empire, global operations were scaled back, despite this, the RAF fought in many battles in the Cold War period
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1992 in Norway
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Events in the year 1992 in Norway. 5 September - The Norwegian commercial television station TV2 has its first television broadcast,25 November – Norway applies for membership in the European Union. 16 December – The current version of the Norwegian coat of arms is approved,26 June – Harald Sverdrup, poet and childrens writer
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2006 in Norway
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Events in the year 2006 in Norway. Monarch, Harald V Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg 10 January – The Christian newspaper Magazinet publishes caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed,22 January – Islamic scholars threaten Denmark and Norway with boycotts after the publication of the Muhammed cartoons. 20 February – Agreement is reached between Denmark and Norway about where the border between Svalbard and Greenland should go,4 March – Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway is baptized in Slottskapellet in Oslo. 20 March – The Norwegian Food Safety Authority reports that Gilde is responsible for an outbreak of e. coli in Norway that has led to the death of one child and 13 hospitalized children,6 May – The Progress Party elects Siv Jensen as their new leader. 12 May – An Al-Qaida video on the internet encourages Muslims to attack Denmark, Norway,25 May – The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 is awarded to Oslo during the congress of the International Ski Federation in Faro, Portugal. 3 June – Salmonella is found in First Price salami, which in recent weeks has infected 35,7 June – A meteorite impact event occurs in northern Troms County, Norway. Locals compare the resultant explosion to the explosion at Hiroshima. The impact location was apparently desolate, and no damage or casualties are reported. 10 June – A man fires several shots at police in Herøy, the man later takes his own life. 19 June - The decision is made to build the Svalbard Global Seed Vault,1 July – The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration is established. This is one of the biggest changes in the history of Norwegian welfare aid,24 August – Fritz Moen is acquitted of murder charges. 31 August – The Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are found by the police, the paintings were stolen on 22 August 2004. The case made headlines locally and nationally, with accusations of unnecessary use of force and racism leveled at the local police, as well as uproar in African societies in Norway. 10 October – Atlantic Airways Flight 670, a BAe 146, slides off the runway at Stord, Norway,13 October – Solveig Fiske is appointed bishop of Hamar. December – Norsk Hydro reveals a proposal to merge its oil business with compatriate oil, gaining approval from both the EU and the Storting, the merger is completed by 1 October 2007. The service station chain HydroTexaco which was established in 1995 through a merger between Norsk Hydro and Texaco is sold to Reitangruppen, for football, see 2006 in Norwegian football 23 July – Tour de France 2006 is won by the Norwegian Thor Hushovd. 17 December – Norway wins the 2006 European Womens Handball Championship in Sweden, Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 200621 April – Free Jimmy, directed by Christopher Nielsen, was released in Norway. 26 May – The Bothersome Man, directed by Jens Lien, was released in Norway,25 August – Uro, directed by Stefan Faldbakken, was released in Norway
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2005 in Norway
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Events in the year 2005 in Norway. Monarch, Harald V Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik to 17 October Jens Stoltenberg 1 January – The University of Stavanger is established,11 March – Ole Christian Kvarme is appointed bishop of Oslo. 8 June – At least 10 are dead after an outbreak of Legionnaires disease, the source is localized to a Borregaard teatment plant in Sarpsborg. 13 June – The new Svinesund Bridge is opened joining Norway, the old Svinesund Bridge still stands 1 kilometre to the east. 14 July – The Nærøyfjord, the Geiranger Fjord and the Struve Geodetic Arc are designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites,12 September – The 2005 Parliamentary election takes place. The election was won by the opposition centre-left Red-Green Coalition, which took 87 seats,19 September – The trial of the accused in the NOKAS robbery starts in Stavanger. 17 October – Stoltenbergs Second Cabinet was appointed, Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 Rock band Accidents Never Happen forms 7 June – Centennial of the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden. Metliaas, civil servant and politician Ove Skaug, engineer and civil servant
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2004 in Norway
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Events in the year 2004 in Norway. 19 January – The freighter MS Rocknes capsizes in Vatlestraumen,26 March – Norsk Hydros fertilizer business was spun off as a separately stock-listed company under the name of Yara International. 4 April – NOKAS robbery, the NOKAS teller central in Stavanger was robbed, the outcome of the robbery was approximately NOK57,4 million, making it the largest robbery in Norwegian history. A policeman was shot and killed during the robbery,15 June – The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training is created. 20 June – The first edition of Skolelinux is released,22 August – Armed robbers steal Edvard Munchs The Scream, Madonna, and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. 6 March – Selection of the participant for Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004,20 July – Maria Mena performs Youre the Only One on Late Show with David Letterman. 21 January – Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway, the daughter of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway,13 January – Arne Næss, Jr
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1994 in Norway
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Events in the year 1994 in Norway. 28–29 September - Torp hostage crisis, Two Swedish robbers took two officers and two pensioners as hostages at the Sandefjord Airport, Torp. The police freed the hostages and killed one of the hostage takers and it is the only incident in peace time that a Norwegian police chief has given the orders to shoot to kill. 28 November - Norway votes no to EU.8 December - The Hitra Tunnel subsea road tunnel is opened, at the time of its opening, it was the worlds deepest undersea tunnel 12–27 February – The 1994 Winter Olympics is held in Lillehammer. 1 January – Emilie Hegh Arntzen, handball player,7 April – Maria Therese Tviberg, alpine skier. 6 January – Per Palle Storm, sculptor,28 April - Olav Nordrå, writer 29 April – Kaleb Nytrøen, police officer
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1998 in Norway
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Events in the year 1998 in Norway. 7 October - Operations cease at Oslo Airport, Fornebu 8 October - The main airport serving Oslo is moved from the Fornebu airport to the all-new Gardermoen airport,17 December - Martin Ødegaard, footballer 8 January – Audun Hetland, illustrator. Sandsdalen, farmer, journalist, poet, novelist, playwright,18 July – Lars Mathias Hille Esmark, civil servant and business person in the tourist industry. 19 July - Rune Nilsen, triple jumper 26 July – Olav Bø,10 December - Trygve Haugeland, politician and Minister 31 December - Erling Norvik, politician Øystein Elgarøy, astronomer Yngvar Løchen, sociologist
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1990 in Norway
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Events in the year 1990 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Jan P.8 April - Passenger Ferry MS Scandinavian Star catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark,159 people are killed in the event. 15 April - Miss Norway Mona Grudt is crowned Miss Universe in Los Angeles,3 November - Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway for the third time Brundtlands Third Cabinet was appointed. Population Census,4,247,546 inhabitants in Norway,22 February - Scott Winkler, ice hockey player 1 January - Ingvald Bjerke, boxer 2 February – Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, folk musician, fiddler
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1983 in Norway
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Events in the year 1983 in Norway. Nesset was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum punishment possible by Norwegian law,8 June – Willochs Second Cabinet was appointed. 18 August – Much of the Archbishops Palace in Trondheim burned down, municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. Odd Abrahamsen, poet, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize, karin Bang, poet and novelist, is awarded the Gyldendals Endowment literature prize. 1 July – Marit Larsen, singer and songwriter 3 January - Ludvig Ellefsrød, politician 16 January Gunnar S
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2012 in Norway
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Events in the year 2012 in Norway. Monarch – Harald V Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg 15 March – Five Norwegian soldiers died in an accident in northern Sweden. 19 March – Six tourists are buried in an avalanche in Gáivuotna–Kåfjord, Norway, leaving four dead,10 April – A second psychiatric evaluation finds that Anders Behring Breivik is sane enough to face trial for the 2011 Norway attacks and serve a prison sentence if convicted. 16 April – The trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, starts in Oslo, Norway. 1 May – Norwegian world swimming champion and Olympic medalist Alexander Dale Oen dies at age 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest during a camp in Flagstaff. 15 May – A man sets himself on fire outside the Oslo courthouse where mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the 2011 Norway attacks,4 August – Death of Sigrid Schjetne in Oslo 17 October - Netflix becomes available to Norwegian consumers. 14 December – The Làhku National Park was established in the municipalities Gildeskål, Meløy, Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 201227 July–12 August, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Norway won a total of four Olympic medals including two gold medals. Eirik Verås Larsen won the medal in canoeing, mens K-11000 metres. 250 years since the establishment of Hadeland Glassverk
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1945 in Norway
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Events in the year 1945 in Norway. 9 February -29 Norwegians were executed by the Nazi regime in Norway as reprisal of Marthinsens death, among others Jon Vislie, Kaare Sundby and Haakon Sæthre. The extent and severity of the reprisals shocked the Norwegian population and government-in-exile,9 February - Black Friday, a large air battle between German and British aircraft over Sunnfjord. It was the largest aerial clash over Norway during World War II,7 May - Knut Hamsun released his obituary of Adolf Hitler. 8 May - The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany ended as German forces agreed to an unconditional surrender,8 May - Grini concentration camp was liberated, only to be used later for treason suspects under the name Ilebu. 8 May - Josef Terboven and Wilhelm Rediess committed suicide,9 May - Vidkun Quisling was arrested. 11 May - Sverre Riisnæs gave up his entrenchment at Skallum farm, jonas Lie died during the entrenchment. 11 May - Akershus Fortress surrendered by the Germans to Terje Rollem acting on behalf of the resistance,13 May - Heinrich Fehlis was arrested and committed suicide. 14 May - Henry Rinnan was arrested,31 May - Government returned from exile in London. 6 June - King Haakon VII of Norway returned to Norway,14 June - Knut Hamsun was apprehended. 20 June - Paal Berg gave up plans to form a broad,25 June - Prime Minister Johan Nygaardsvold resigned as Haakon VII appointed Einar Gerhardsen to head an interim government composed of all political parties. 6 July - Norway declares war on Japan,25 July – Gerhardsens First Cabinet was appointed. 17 August - Reidar Haaland was executed,8 October - The 1945 Parliamentary election takes place. 24 October - Vidkun Quisling was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress,5 November – Gerhardsens Second Cabinet was appointed. 24 December - Henry Rinnan escaped from prison, only to be apprehended later, IG Farben was the largest stock-holder in Norsk Hydro. The two companies first formed a partnership in 1927. The newspaper Verdens Gang was founded, the periodical Kvinnen og Tiden is founded. Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country
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2008 in Norway
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Monarch, Harald V Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg January 1 – The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment is established. January 1 – Nordic Battlegroup consisting of forces from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Republic of Ireland. January 1 – Mercury becomes banned from use in Norway, January 11 – Norwegian police announce that they have arrested a 55-year-old man suspected of being the sexual predator known as The Pocket Man. 13 January – A school in Lørenskog is closed after threats of a school shooting came from a video on YouTube, a 15-year-old was arrested for the threat. January 21 – The OBX Index drops 6. 4%, then the second biggest fall since August 1991, February 21 – An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the moment magnitude scale hits Svalbard. This oblique-slip shock had a maximum Mercalli intensity of IV and was the strongest earthquake ever to hit Norway, February 23 – The 8 km Eiksund Tunnel near Volda in Møre og Romsdal is opened. February 26 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is officially opened,28 February – Three people were arrested in Oslo, accused of having participated in the financing of terrorist acts abroad. February 29 – Anniken Huitfeldt is appointed Minister of Children and Equality, March 1 – Austrian Matthias Lanzinger collides with a gate during a World Cup Super-G run at Kvitfjell, resulting in injuries that lead to his left leg being amputated below the knee two days later. 28 March – Norway recognizes Kosovo as an independent state,12 April – Official opening of the Oslo Opera House. 15 May – Ingeborg Synnøve Midtømme is appointed bishop of the diocese of Møre, june 11 – Norway legalises same-sex marriage. September 9 – The OBX Index drops 5. 57%, then the fourth biggest drop ever. September 29 – In conjunction with the liquidity crisis the index of Oslo Stock Exchange drops 8. 3%, then its third largest drop ever in one day. October 6 – The OBX Index drops 9. 71%, the third largest drop ever in one day, October 8 – The OBX Index drops 6. Author Stig Sæterbakken resigns as the content director in protest over the decision. October 15 – The OBX Index drops 8. 81% October 24 – The OBX Index drops 9, March 29– The Norwegian Premier League 2008 kicks off, lasting through November 2. November 2– The Norwegian Premier League 2008 ends, september 29 – Emma Tallulah Behn, the daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn. December 15 – Anne-Catharina Vestly, childrens author December 27 – Arild Andresen, footballer and ice hockey player
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