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2014 In Sweden
Events from the year 2014 in Sweden. Incumbents * Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf * Prime Minister – Fredrik Reinfeldt, Stefan Löfven Events March * 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended. Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading. * 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend. July *31 July-11 August - 2014 Västmanland Wildfire. September * 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election December * 2 December – * 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election. * 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers. Deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of water inside of a C-17 Globemaster III in the War against the Islamic State; Thai soldiers at the Chang Phueak Gate during the 2014 Thai coup d'état; Pro-independence campaigners in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 dissappears in the Indian Ocean while Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine; Crimea is Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed by Russia., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Western Africa Ebola virus epidemic rect 200 0 400 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping rect 400 0 600 200 War against the Islamic State rect 0 200 300 400 Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation rect 300 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Swedish General Election
The 2014 Swedish government crisis ( sv, Regeringskrisen i Sverige 2014) started on 3 December 2014 after the Riksdag rejected the proposed government budget in favour of a budget proposed by the centre-right opposition. The Sweden Democrats declared at a press conference on 2 December 2014 that they would secondarily vote for the government budget proposed by other opposition parties in the centre-right Alliance, thus securing a majority for that budget and a defeat for the budget proposed by the Red-green Löfven cabinet. After a meeting between the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the parties of the Alliance did not lead to any solution or any plans of further negotiations, the Alliance's budget passed in the Riksdag on 3 December with a margin of 182 to 153 (14 parliamentarians not attending the meeting). The same day Prime Minister Stefan Löfven declared that the cabinet would call a snap election to be held on 22 March 2015. For constitutional reasons the snap elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ã…ke Johansson
Åke "Bajdoff" Johansson (19 March 1928 – 21 December 2014) was a Swedish football player. Johansson played as a center half in IFK Norrköping and capped 53 times for the national team between 1955 and 1965. With IFK Norrköping he owns the club record with 321 appearances.1957: Bajdoff Johansson, IFK Norrköping aftonbladet.se, retrieved 2013-06-11 (Swedish) Johansson became Swedish champion with his club 6 times (1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962 and 1963), won Guldbollen 1957 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klas Ingesson
Klas Inge "Klabbe" Ingesson (20 August 1968 – 29 October 2014) was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. He spent most of his career as a midfielder in Sweden, Belgium, Netherlands, England, Italy and France. Ingesson represented the Sweden national team on 57 occasions, including the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, as well as the 1992 European Championship. He was the manager of IF Elfsborg from 2013 until his death in October 2014. Playing career He played for IFK Göteborg in Sweden, K.V. Mechelen in Belgium, PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, Sheffield Wednesday in England, Bari, Bologna and Lecce in Italy, and Marseille in France. At Sheffield Wednesday, he encountered players "who went straight to the pub after training but still able to run like wild animals come Saturday". Manager Trevor Francis recruited him to replace Carlton Palmer, but Ingesson only played in 18 games (plus three in the domestic cups). He scored two goals for Sheffield Wednesday, one a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengt Saltin
Bengt Saltin (3 June 1935 — 12 September 2014) was a Swedish professor in exercise physiology, who spent parts of his career in Denmark. After starting his medical studies at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, in the 1950s, he commenced his doctoral studies at the Department of Physiology at the Royal Gymnastic Central Institute (GCI/GIH) in Stockholm in 1960. Per-Olof Åstrand became his tutor, and in 1964 he presented his doctoral thesis. He thereafter proceeded with introducing muscle physiology and biochemistry studies at the same departement. In the 1970s he commenced with the same type of studies at the August Krogh Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the 1990s he returned to Stockholm and the Karolinska Institute for some years, and later he returned to Copenhagen to establish the Copenhagen Muscle Research Institute. His overall contributions to exercise physiology are among the greater attained in history, Saltin died in Stockholm, Sweden, on 12 Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Waldegård
Björn Waldegård (12 November 1943 – 29 August 2014) was a Swedish rally driver, and the winner of the inaugural World Rally Championship for drivers in 1979. His Swedish nickname was "Walle". Career Waldegård, who came from Rimbo, had a career that spanned four decades; he made his debut in 1962 and, after winning the Swedish Rally Championship in 1967 and '68, continued to compete at the top level until 1992 when a broken arm suffered during a crash in the 1992 Safari Rally forced his retirement. His first international victory, at the wheel of a Porsche 911, came on the 1969 Monte Carlo Rally, while his last came for Toyota on the 1990 Safari. It made him the oldest driver to win a World Rally Championship event, a record he retained until the 2022 Monte Carlo Rally. In the mid-1970s Waldegård took part in the newborn European Championship for Rallycross Drivers with a privately entered Porsche Carrera RSR. His best overall result was to become the Runner-up to Austri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasse Brännström
Brasse Brännström (real name Lars Erik Brännström; 27 February 1945 – 29 August 2014) was a Swedish actor and comedian. Brännström attended Adolf Fredrik's Music School in Stockholm. In 1970, he gained fame alongside Magnus Härenstam and Lasse Hallström, when they made their first television program ''Oj är det redan fredag''. During the 1980s, Brännström managed Maximteatern in Stockholm with Magnus Härenstam, Lill Lindfors, and Aller Johansson, in a company called Limabrall. He is also known for hosting the children's TV-program ''Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter'' (with Magnus Härenstam & Eva Remaeus), which was popular and has been re-broadcast numerous times. Selected filmography *''Ã…sa-Nisse – wälkom to Knohult'' (2011) *''Kenny Begins'' (2009) *''Hon och Hannes'' (TV) (2005–06) *''Den bästa av mödrar'' (2005) *''Paradiset'' (2003) *''Swedenhielms'' (TV) (2003) *''DieselrÃ¥ttor & sjömansmöss'' (TV) (2002) *''Deadline (2001 film), Sprä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Västerbottens-Kuriren
''Västerbottens-Kuriren'' (also known as VK) is a Swedish newspaper founded in 1900. It is published in Umeå, Västerbotten, Sweden. The newspaper covers regional news from the region Västerbotten (with the exception of the municipalities Mala, Norsjö and Skellefteå), with a special interest in the home town Umeå, in combination with national news and international news. Rosén ''VK'' published its first issue on 17 May 1900. The paper grew rapidly, and became the largest newspaper in the Västerbotten County in 1903 - a position it has held since. Among the early journalists involved with the newspaper was the author Astrid Väring. Gustav Rosén, who played an important role in the history of Sweden's Folkpartiet (Liberal People's Party) was the executive director until 1926, when he was appointed as Minister of Defence in the first cabinet of Carl Gustav Ekman. His successor Ernst Gafvelin died already after six months, after which Gustav Rosén's only son, Stellan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Mortimer
Lars Mortimer (22 March 1946 – 25 August 2014) was a Swedish comic artist who wrote and illustrated, among many others, the Swedish comic strips ''Bobo'' and '' Hälge.'' Mortimer died after a short illness on 25 August 2014 in Alfta, Hälsingland Hälsingland (), sometimes referred to as Helsingia in English, is a historical province or ''landskap'' in central Sweden. It borders Gästrikland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Medelpad and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is part of the land of Norrland. Ad .... He was 68. References Swedish comics writers Swedish comics artists 1946 births 2014 deaths {{cartoonist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertil Haase
Bertil Robert Herman Haase Vidarsson (5 June 1923 – 7 July 2014) was a Swedish pentathlete who competed at both Winter and Summer Olympics.Bertil Haase Swedish Olympic Committee Hasse joined the as a volunteer and attended military school as a (private first class). He later retired from the army as a . Together with , |
Barbro Kollberg
Barbro Kollberg (27 December 1917 – 6 March 2014) was a Swedish film actress. Born in Eskilstuna, Södermanlands län, Sweden, she starred in Ingmar Bergman's 1946 ''It Rains on Our Love''. She lived to be 96. Selected filmography * '' Life Begins Today'' (1939) * ''Heroes in Yellow and Blue'' (1940) * '' A Real Man'' (1940) *''Home from Babylon'' (1941) * '' Tonight or Never'' (1941) * ''The Yellow Clinic'' (1942) * '' Kungsgatan'' (1943) * ''Som folk är mest'' (1944) * ''It Rains on Our Love'' (1946) * '' The Nuthouse'' (1951) * ''Den gula bilen'' (1963) * ''Mor gifter sig'' (1979) (TV Series) * ''The Best Intentions'' (1991) (TV Series) * '' Första Kärleken'' (1992) (Miniseries) * ''A Life for the Taking'' (1995) * ''As It Is in Heaven ''As It Is in Heaven'' ( sv, SÃ¥ som i himmelen) is a 2004 Swedish musical film directed by Kay Pollak and starring Michael Nyqvist and Frida Hallgren. It was a box office hit in Sweden and several other countries. It was nomin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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