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Halle Jørn Hanssen
Halle Jørn Hanssen (born 18 February 1937) is a Norwegian television correspondent, development aid administrator and politician. He was born in Brønnøy Municipality, and worked as a teacher in Vinje Municipality before enrolling at the University of Oslo. He graduated with the cand.mag. degree in 1964, and worked as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs from 1965 up to and including 1968. Having been the chairman of the Young Liberals of Norway from 1964 to 1966, in early 1969 he was hired as secretary for the Liberal Party. Immediately after the 1969 election he was hired in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1978 he became the first correspondent for Africa in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, which was the only television station in Norway at that time. As a correspondent he was stationed in Nairobi. Hanssen left the Liberal Party in 1972, as the party split over disagreements of Norway's proposed entry to the European Economic C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bærum Municipality
Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. Bærum has the highest income per capita in Norway and the highest proportion of university-educated individuals. Bærum, particularly its eastern neighbourhoods bordering West End Oslo, is one of Norway's priciest and most fashionable residential areas, leading Bærum residents to be frequently stereotyped as snobs in Norwegian popular culture. The municipality has been voted the best Norwegian place to live in considering governance and public services to citizens. Name The name (Old Norse: ''Bergheimr'') is composed of ''berg'', which means "mountain", and ''heimr'', which means " homestead" or "farm". It probably ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola H
Ola may refer to: Places Panama *Olá, a subdistrict in Coclé Province *Olá District Russia *Ola, Russia, an urban settlement in Magadan Oblast *Ola District, an administrative division in Magadan Oblast *Ola (river), a river in Magadan Oblast United States *Ola, Arkansas, a city *Ola, Georgia, an unincorporated community *Ola, Idaho, an unincorporated community *Ola, Nevada, a ghost town *Ola, South Dakota, a census-designated place *Ola, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community *Casa Linda Estates, Dallas, formerly known as Ola People * Ola (given name), a list of men and women with the name * Ola (surname), a list of men and women with the surname * Ola Svensson (born 1986), also known by the mononym Ola, Swedish singer-songwriter * Ola Nordmann, a national personification of Norwegians * Ola people, another name for the ''Wurla'', an indigenous people of Western Australia Other uses *Ola High School (other), the name of several high schools *Ola Cab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
