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1986 in Norway
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Events in the year 1986 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Kåre Willoch until 9 May,9 May – Brundtlands Second Cabinet was appointed. Norsk Hydro acquires Årdal og Sunndal Verk in a merger to create the metal division Hydro Aluminium. 10 March - Jon Aaraas, ski jumper,8 October - Camilla Herrem, handball player
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1985 in Norway
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Events in the year 1985 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Kåre Willoch 25 February – The trial of the accused spy Arne Treholt starts,20 June – Arne Treholt was sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage. 9 September – The 1985 Parliamentary election takes place,3 December – The Rock carvings at Alta, Norways only prehistoric World Heritage Site, is designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The volcano Beerenberg on the Norwegian volcanic island Jan Mayen erupts,4 May – With the song La det swinge, Norways Norwegian pop duo Bobbysocks. Fredrik Skagen, writer, is awarded the Norwegian Booksellers Prize, harald Sverdrup, poet and childrens writer, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize. 26 June – Torstein Kvamme, politician 9 July – Trygve Braarud, botanist 21 July – Arthur Klæbo, journalist
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1984 in Norway
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Events in the year 1984 in Norway. Monarch – Olav V Prime Minister – Kåre Willoch 20 January – Arne Treholt was arrested on suspicion of spying for the Soviet Union,17 July – The first baby conceived in Norway by artificial insemination is born at the Regional Hospital of Trondheim. 1 September – NRK P2 begins its radio broadcasts from Trondheim, the 1984 Norwegian Football Cup was won by Fredrikstad after beating Viking 3-2 in the final. Live at Jazz Alive, live album by Thorgeir Stubø Simen Skjønsberg, journalist,14 April – Anders Haugen, ski jumper 22 April – Erling Nilsen, boxer and Olympic bronze medallist. 23 April – Ivar Johansen, bobsledder, henrik Edland, veterinarian Rolf Gammleng, violinist and organizational leader
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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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1988 in Norway
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Events in the year 1988 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Gro Harlem Brundtland May 6 – Widerøe Flight 710, february 23 - Edvard Munchs painting Vampire was stolen from the Munch Museum in Oslo. July – Seal hunting inspector Odd F. Lindberg submits a highly critical report on the conditions of the hunt, with the national and international attention that follows this becomes arguably the biggest news story in Norway this year. August 15 –15 people are killed in the Måbødalen bus accident, august 21 - The Stolen Munch painting Vampire is retrieved. December 5 - TVNorge, the first advertising-supported Norwegian channel, begins its broadcasting, june 26 - Leonard Cohen concert at Kalvøya, Bærum. 12 April - Tone Damli Aaberge, singer,17 April - Pernille Wibe, team handball player
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1989 in Norway
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Events in the year 1989 in Norway. Monarch - Olav V Prime Minister - Gro Harlem Brundtland until 16 October, Jan P. Syse 30 March – The Oseberg oil field,1 June – Pope John Paul II visited Norway for the first time. This was the first time a pope has ever visited Norway,9 May - the ban on Skateboarding in Norway, which was in act since 1978, is removed. 7 July – The opening of the Atlanterhavsveien Road,8 September – A Norwegian passenger plane crashed outside Hirtshals. All the 55 on board died,11 September – The 1989 Parliamentary election takes place. 9 October – The opening of the Sami Parliament of Norway,16 October – Gro Harlem Brundtland resigns, with her cabinet, as Prime Minister of Norway for the second time. 16 October – Syses Cabinet was appointed,3 November - Torgeir Bryn becomes the first Norwegian to play in the NBA, when he played 2 minutes for the Los Angeles Clippers against Houston Rockets
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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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Olav V of Norway
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Olav V was King of Norway from 1957 until his death. Olav was the child of Haakon VII and Maud of Wales. He became heir apparent to the Norwegian throne when his father was elected King of Norway in 1905. He was the first heir to the Norwegian throne to be brought up in Norway since Olav IV, in preparation for his future role, he attended both civilian and military schools. In 1929, he married his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden, during World War II his leadership was much appreciated and he was appointed Norwegian Chief of Defence in 1944. At his death in 1991, he was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, due to his considerate, down-to-earth style, King Olav was immensely popular, resulting in the nickname Folkekongen. In a 2005 poll by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Olav was voted Norwegian of the century, Olav was a Danish prince born in Appleton House on the royal Sandringham Estate, Flitcham, United Kingdom. He was named Alexander Edward Christian Frederik, when his father was elected king of Norway, he took the Norwegian name Haakon VII, and on the day he was inaugurated, he gave his son the Norwegian name Olav. Olav was the first heir to the throne since medieval times to have raised in Norway. Unlike his father, who was an officer, Olav chose to complete his main military education in the army. He graduated from the three-year Norwegian Military Academy in 1924, with the fourth best score in his class, Olav then went on to study jurisprudence and economics for two years at Balliol College, Oxford. During the 1930s, Crown Prince Olav was a naval cadet serving on the training ship Olav Tryggvason. Olav moved upwards in the ranks of the Norwegian armed forces, rising in the army from a rank of first lieutenant, to captain in 1931. Olav jumped from the Holmenkollen ski jump in Oslo, and also competed in sailing regattas and he won a gold medal in sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and remained an active sailor into old age. On 21 March 1929 in Oslo, he married his first cousin Princess Märtha of Sweden with whom he had two daughters, Ragnhild and Astrid and one son, Harald. As exiles during World War II, Crown Princess Märtha and the children lived in Washington. She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne, as Crown Prince, Olav had received extensive military training and had participated in most major Norwegian military exercises. Because of this he was one of the most knowledgeable Norwegian military leaders and was respected by other Allied leaders for his knowledge
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