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1879 In Norway
Events in the year 1879 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch: Oscar II Events *The Kverneland Group was established by Ole Gabriel Kverneland. Arts and literature *Henrik Ibsen (while living in Italy) publishes '' A Doll's House'' Births January to June *26 January – Birger Braadland, politician (died 1966) *5 March – Rachel Grepp, journalist and politician (died 1961) *24 March – Leiv Heggstad, educator, linguist and translator (died 1954). *11 April – Øistein Schirmer, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (died 1947) *29 April – Henrik Ameln, jurist and politician (died 1961) *23 May – Kjeld Stub Irgens, sea captain and collaborator minister (died 1963) *27 May – Per Reidarson, composer and music critic (died 1954) *28 May – Lilly Heber, literary critic and historian (died 1944) *30 May – Olaf Josef Johansen, politician. *27 June – Martin Tranmæl, socialist leader (died 1967) July to September *9 July – Karen Platou, politician (died 1950) *5 August – ... [...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] |
Øistein Schirmer
Øistein Schirmer (11 April 1879 – 24 May 1947) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian team, which won the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event. He was born in Fredrikstad and died in Larvik, but represented the club Kristiansands TF. He later emigrated to Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ... where he died. References 1879 births 1947 deaths Norwegian male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Norway Olympic gold medalists for Norway Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1912 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Fredrikstad 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ole Hallesby
Ole Kristian Hallesby (5 August 1879 – 22 November 1961) was a conservative, Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author and educator. Biography Ole Kristian Hallesby was born in Aremark, in Østfold, Norway. Hallesby grew up as the sixth of eight siblings on a family farm with a father also served as an assistant pastor. His family was from the Lutheran piety of the Haugean heritage. He graduated with a degree in theology in 1903 and was awarded his doctorate in 1909. Ole Kristian Hallesby taught at the Free Faculty of Theology from 1909 to 1952. He was chairman of the Norwegian Santal Mission 1902-1906 and chairman of the Norwegian Lutheran Inner Mission Society (''Det norske lutherske Indremisjonsselskap'') from 1923 to 1956. He was also central to the founding of Norwegian Christian Student and School Association in 1924. Nazi occupation of Norway An outspoken opponent of the Nazi occupation of Norway, he was arrested and detained at Grini concentration camp for two years (u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 In Norway
Events in the year 1950 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Haakon VII * Prime Minister – Einar Gerhardsen ( Labour Party) Events * 2 January – Postbanken (lit. The Post Bank) 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. Popular culture Sports Music Film Literature *September 18 – Henrik Rytter, Norwegian dramatist, lyricist and translator (born 1887) Notable births January *5 January – Halvdan Sivertsen, singer *9 January – Maryon Eilertsen, actress and theatre director (died 2015). *22 January – Tomm Kristiansen, author and journalist (died 2022) *25 January – Svein Gjedrem, economist, Governor of the Central Bank of Norway *28 January – Gro Anita Schønn, singer (died 2001). March *7 March – Eva M. Nielsen, politician *11 March – Ketil Egge, actor and theatre director (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Platou
Karen Platou (9 July 1879 – 10 June 1950) was a Norwegian businesswoman and a politician for the Conservative Party. Platou was the country's first woman to be elected Member of Parliament. She was born in Mandal, Vest-Agder, the daughter of treasurer Otto Michael Stoud Platou (1852 – 1903) and Ida Nanna Amalie Ræder (1852 – 1903). Among the many prominent members of her family were her uncle Christian Emil Stoud Platou, rail road director and Conservative politician, and another uncle Waldemar Stoud Platou, brewer and businessman. She grew up in Kristiania – today called Oslo – and received her education here and in Hanover, Germany. After finishing her education she started working as an architect, and also got involved in organisational and political work. From 1919 Platou had been a deputy representative in the Norwegian Parliament – Stortinget – for the Conservative Party. In the 1921 election, she was elected Member of Parliament fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1967 In Norway
Events in the year 1967 in Norway. Incumbents * List of Norwegian monarchs, Monarch – Olav V * Heads of government of Norway, Prime Minister – Per Borten (Centre Party (Norway), Centre Party) Events * 1 January – The Norwegian National Insurance Act (Folketrygdloven) was introduced. * 22 October – The opening of the Tjeldsund Bridge. * 24 November – The voting age in Norway was set to 20 years of age. * 1967 Norwegian local elections, Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. * The Government Pension Fund of Norway (Norwegian: ''Statens pensjonsfond Norge'' or ''SPN'') was established by the Norwegian National Insurance Act (Folketrygdloven) *Natur og Ungdom is established. Popular culture Sports *11 to 12 February – The World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men are held in Oslo. Music Film Literature *Per Hansson (journalist), Per Hansson, journalist and writer, is awarded the Gyldendal's Endowment literature prize. *Hallvard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Tranmæl
Martin Olsen Tranmæl (27 June 1879 – 11 July 1967) was a Norwegian socialist leader from The Norwegian Labour Party. Biography Martin Tranmæl grew up on a middle-sized farm in Melhus, in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. He started working as a painter and construction worker. In the early 20th century, Tranmæl lived for a while in the United States where he came into contact with the American workers movement, and even though he joined the AFL, he was also present at the founding congress of the Industrial Workers of the World, whose revolutionary syndicalist ideology he continued to be influenced by after returning to Norway. Upon his return, he eventually joined Norwegian Labour Party where he soon became one of the main leaders of the Party's left wing and worked for many different socialist papers. Tranmæl became a Communist after learning of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and he attended Comintern meetings in Russia and encouraged the Norwegian Labour Party to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Josef Johansen
Olaf Josef Johansen (30 May 1879 – 20 January 1962) was a Norwegian politician. He was born in Christiania to Johan Johansen Reboli and Helene Marie Halvorsen. He was elected representative to the Storting from Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ... for five consecutive periods, first 1925–1927 and last time 1937–1945, for the Labour Party. References 1879 births 1962 deaths 20th-century Norwegian politicians Politicians from Oslo Labour Party (Norway) politicians Members of the Storting {{Norway-politician-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 In Norway
Events in the year 1944 in Norway. Incumbents *Government in Exile (in London) ** Monarch – Haakon VII ** Prime Minister – Johan Nygaardsvold ( Labour Party) *German Military Governor ** Reichskommissar in Norway – Josef Terboven * German Puppet Government in Oslo ** Minister-President – Vidkun Quisling ( National Unification) Events * 3 April – The German battleship was bombed and damaged by British carrier-borne aircraft at Kåfjorden in Alta. * 20 April – The German ammunition transport ''Voorbode'' accidentally explodes in the harbour of the Western Norway city of Bergen, killing around 160 people and leaving some 5,000 homeless. * 3 October – Soviet troops cross the border to Norway. * 4 October – British aircraft bomb the U-boat bunker "Bruno" and the dock area in Bergen harbour. As a result, 194 civilians, including 60 children, are killed. * 25 October – the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive the Red Army liberates Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilly Heber
Lilly Heber (28 May 1879 – 17 March 1944) was a Norwegian literary critic and historian, novelist and magazine editor. She was born in Gol to dean Andreas Emil Hansen and Anna Judith Sørensen. She graduated as dr.phil. from the University of Oslo in 1915. Her publications include ''Camilla Collett'' (1913 or 1914), ''Norsk realisme i 1830- og 40-aarene'' (thesis from 1914), ''Det dages'' (novel, 1918) ''Det nye som gror'' (1921), a biography of Alvilde Prydz (1925), a biography of Annie Besant (1927), ''Glimt av en ny idéverden'' (1930), and ''Krishnamurti og vår tids krise'' (1933). She edited the magazine ''Stjernen'' from 1922 to 1928, and from 1929 the magazine ''Nyorientering'', an international magazine for the ideas of Jiddu Krishnamurti Jiddu Krishnamurti (; 11 May 1895 – 17 February 1986) was a philosopher, speaker and writer. In his early life, he was groomed to be the new World Teacher, an advanced spiritual position in the theosophical tradition, but lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Per Reidarson
Per Reidarson (27 May 1879 – 21 January 1954) was a Norwegian composer and music critic. In the early twentieth century he was an acknowledged composer. For his body of work he was granted ''kunstnerlønn'', a guaranteed minimum income for artists, by the Norwegian state in 1938. He had also worked as a music critic in the newspapers ''Tidens Tegn'' and ''Arbeiderbladet''. However, he eventually joined the political party Nasjonal Samling and began writing for their official publication ''Fritt Folk''. In 1941–1942, while Norway was occupied by Germany, he held the lecture ''Norsk og unorsk i musikken'' ('Norwegian and Un-Norwegian in Music'), anger directed at the perceived "Jewish and Marxist" Modernist music In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories o .... In 1945 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Norway
Events in the year 1963 in Norway. Incumbents * Monarch – Olav V * Prime Minister – Einar Gerhardsen ( Labour Party) until 28 August, John Lyng (Conservative Party) until 25 September, Einar Gerhardsen ( Labour Party) Events * 21 March – MS Høegh Aronde sank near Morocco during a voyage from Sassandra to Valencia, resulting in the deaths of 15 of the 28 Norwegian crew members. * 1 July – Work begins to build Tromsø Airport * 28 August – Lyng's Cabinet was appointed. * 25 September – Gerhardsen's Fourth Cabinet was appointed. * Norsk Hydro in cooperation with Harvey Aluminum starts Alnor, a plant at Karmøy to produce aluminium * Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country. * The Munch Museum was opened, 100 years after Edvard Munch's birth. Popular culture Sports Football (No Data Given) Music Top songs of 1963 in Norway # Arne Bendiksen - "Jeg vil ha en blå ballong" # Cliff Richard - " Summer Holiday" # Ned Miller - "From a Jack to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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