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1950 in Norway
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Events in the year 1950 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Einar Gerhardsen 2 January - Postbanken starts its operations,15 November -14 people killed in the Hjuksebø train disaster. 1 December - Population Census,3,278,546 inhabitants in Norway, the official inauguration of the Oslo City Hall. 5 January – Halvdan Sivertsen, singer 9 January – Maryon Eilertsen, actress,8 August – Synne Skouen, composer 19 August – Kari Bøge, Swedish-born Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer, childrens writer and illustrator. 5 September – Bjørn Skagestad, actor 7 September – Anne Grosvold,10 September – Tom Lund, football player 1 October – Sigbjørn Johnsen, politician 12 October – Knut Knudsen, racing cyclist 28 October – Beate Ellingsen, designer. 6 April - Signe Lund, composer,14 September - Marius Eriksen, Olympic gymnast. 3 October - Betzy Kjelsberg, politician and feminist 22 December - Bernhoff Hansen, wrestler and Olympic gold medallist
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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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1952 in Norway
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Events in the year 1952 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Oscar Torp 7 January –15 died in an explosion in Svalbard. 14–25 February –1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total,24 November - Folketeatret opened in Oslo
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1953 in Norway
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Events in the year 1953 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Oscar Torp 1 June –The first Bergen International Festival opens,16 July – Parliament voted to move the main base for the Navy from Horten to Bergen. 11 September - The Norwegian Consumer Council established 12 October – The 1953 Parliamentary election takes place,15 November – Four men suspected of spying for the Soviet Union were arrested in Kirkenes. The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature is founded
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1954 in Norway
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Events in the year 1954 in Norway. Monarch - Haakon VII Prime Minister - Oscar Torp 28 March – Bear Island accident, the plane had a crew of 8 men and one passenger. One of the crew survived the accident. 3 May - Asbjørn Sunde and Erling Nordby were convicted for treason, state-owned Årdal og Sunndal Verk begins construction on the Sunndal plant. Martin Stokken, cross country skier and athlete, is awarded the Holmenkollen medal, football Association of Norway joins UEFA
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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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