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1937 In Norway
Events in the year 1937 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Haakon VII * Prime Minister – Johan Nygaardsvold ( Labour Party) Events * 29 May – Stavanger Airport, Sola is opened by King Haakon VII * Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. * A flash flood destroys 20 houses in the Sima Valley, Hordaland. No lives are lost. Popular culture Sports Music Film Literature Notable births * 4 January – Harald Barlie, Greco-Roman wrestler * 4 January – Ole Kristian Grimnes, historian * 4 January – Per Tresselt, diplomat * 11 February – Ola Teigen, politician (died 1970) * 17 February – Bjørn Wiik, physicist (died 1999) * 18 February – Halle Jørn Hanssen, television correspondent, development aid administrator and politician * 21 February – Harald V, King of Norway * 22 February – Bjarte Eikeset, jurist and politician * 23 March – Per Olav Wiken, sailor and Olympic silver medallist * 13 April – Berge Furre, historian, theolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 In Norway
Events in the year 1970 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Olav V * Prime Minister – Per Borten ( Centre Party) Events * 27 April – The oil company Phillips Petroleum makes a new oil discovery (Ekofisk oil field) in the North Sea. The Ekofisk oil field remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea. * 7 May – Norway's Resistance Museum is opened to the public. * 17 May – Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sets sail from Morocco towards Latin America aboard Ra II, a papyrus boat modeled after ancient Egyptian sailing vessels, in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean and prove his theory that the ancient Egyptians sailed to America in ancient times. * 19 June – The Nature Conservation Act (Naturvernlova) was adopted. * 12 July – Ra II arrives in Barbados. * 20 September – A volcano eruption occurs on Jan Mayen. As a result, the island is evacuated. * 1 November – Population Census: 3,874,133 inhabitants in Norway. * Kristiansund Airport, Kvernberget is op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Norway
Events in the year 2017 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Harald V * Prime Minister – Erna Solberg (Conservative). Events *1 January ** The Church of Norway was partially disestablished and demoted from state church to national church. ** The number of municipalities in Norway decreased from 428 to 426 as Sandefjord municipality incorporated Andebu and Stokke municipalities. *11 January – Norway starts a complete switch-off of national FM radio stations. *11 September – the 2017 Norwegian parliamentary election. Popular culture Music *28 January – Presentation of the Spellemannprisen awards *11 March – Selection of the contributor of Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 Sports *13–15 January – The 2017 Norwegian Figure Skating Championships were held at Hamar. *26 March – Ketil Tømmernes was elected new president of the Norwegian Athletics Association *27 March – the announcement that Inge Andersen was sacked as secretary-general of the Norweg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gullow Gjeseth
Gullow Gjeseth (7 May 1937 – 18 January 2017) was a Norwegian military officer. Gjeseth was born in Nærøy, and graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1959. He served as officer in the Hans Majestet Kongens Garde, and was chief of staff at the 6th Division from 1982 to 1985. From 1986 to 1990 he headed the information department of the Norwegian High Command. From 1990 he was commander of the land-based military forces in Norway, and from 1994 he served as director of the . At the time of his retirement he held the rank of major general. From 1996 to 2006 he edited the journal ''Norsk Militært Tidsskrift''. He was also a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, and he chaired the investigation committee of the Lillehammer affair (1998–2000). His books include ''Allianseforsvar i endring: 1970–2000'' (2004; jointly with Jacob Børresen and Rolf Tamnes, as volume V in the five-volume series ''Norges forsvarshistorie''), further ''Hæren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Jahre
Henrik Jahre (born 21 April 1937) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Vestfold Vestfold is a traditional region, a former county and a current electoral district in Eastern Norway. In 2020 the county became part of the much larger county of Vestfold og Telemark. Located on the western shore of the Oslofjord, it bordered th ... during the terms 1973–1977 and 1977–1981. In total he met during 5 days of parliamentary session. References 1937 births Living people Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Deputy members of the Storting Vestfold politicians Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Alsåker Spilde
Arne Alsåker Spilde (18 April 1937 – 14 March 2024) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Spilde was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hordaland in 1981, and was re-elected on two occasions. He had previously served as a deputy representative during the terms 1973–1977 and 1977–1981, and later served in the same position from 1993–1997. Spilde was a member of the executive committee of Ullensvang Ullensvang is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hardanger. The administrative centre is the town of Odda. Some of the notable villages in the municipality include Lofthus, Utne, Vikebygd ... municipality council in the periods 1975–1977 and 1977–1979. Spilde died on 14 March 2024, at the age of 86. References * 1937 births 2024 deaths Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting 20th-century Norwegian politicians People from Hordaland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan J
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Berge Furre
Berge Ragnar Furre (13 April 193711 January 2016) was a Norwegian historian, theologian and politician for the Socialist Left Party. Early life and career Furre was born in Sjernarøy in 1937, the son of engineer Berge Bergesen Furre (1887–1952) and secretary Else Otilie Tjomsaas (1906–1993). He took primary education in Sjernarøy, Stavanger and Oslo, and finished his secondary education in Oslo in 1955. Later that year he enrolled at the University of Oslo. In 1959 he became the leader of the Norwegian Students' Society. He was a member of the Labour Party, but as the chairman of ''Sosialistisk Studentlag'' (1956–1957) he was central to the so-called "Easter Uprising" in 1958. He later left the Labour Party to found the Socialist People Party together with other prominent persons in the Easter Uprising, such as Finn Gustavsen. He was the party secretary from 1961 to 1964. Furre finally graduated with a cand.philol. degree in 1968. Already in 1967 he had been appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Olav Wiken
Per Olav Wiken (23 March 1937 – 14 January 2011) was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal in the Star class at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ..., together with Peder Lunde Jr. References External links * 1937 births 2011 deaths Norwegian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Norway Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Star Olympic silver medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in sailing Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{Norway-yachtracing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarte Eikeset
Bjarte Erling Eikeset (22 February 1937 – 22 April 2017) was a Norwegian lawyer, judge and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway, Conservative Party. He was born in Førde. He graduated from the University of Oslo with a cand.jur. degree in 1964, and at that institution he was a research assistant from 1964 to 1965 and lecturer from 1965 to 1969. From 1969 to 1980 he worked as a lawyer in Førde, from 1976 with access to Supreme Court of Norway, Supreme Court cases. In 1980 he was promoted to district stipendiary magistrate in Sunnfjord District Court, Sunnfjord. In 1993 he applied, unsuccessfully, for the position as List of County Governors of Sogn og Fjordane, County Governor of Sogn og Fjordane. He remained in Sunnfjord except for the years 1981 to 1983, and in 2004 he moved to the district stipendiary magistrate chair Fjordane District Court, Fjordane. He retired in 2007 due to the age limit of 70 years. Eikeset became involved in local politics as an elected m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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