1968 in Norway
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Events in the year 1968 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- 19 February – Avalanches occur in Bondalen which kill four people.
- 19 March – The Palace announces that Crown Prince Harald has engaged to Sonja Haraldsen.
- 29 August – Crown Prince Harald married Sonja Haraldsen in the Oslo Cathedral.
- 13 September – Norwegian whaling in the Southern Hemisphere ceases after the last whaling company officially announces it would not send any more whaling expeditions.
- 9 October – the first commercial discovery of petroleum deposit on the Norwegian continental shelf was confirmed.
- The Norwegian Sami Association was founded
Popular culture
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Sports
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Music
Film
Literature
- The Norwegian Writers' Center (Norsk forfattersentrum) is established.
- Finn Alnæs, novelist, is awarded the Norwegian Booksellers' Prize and the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for the novel Gemini.[1]
- Ebba Haslund, novelist, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize for Syndebukkens krets.[2]
Notable births
- 31 January – May-Helen Molvær Grimstad, politician
- 6 February – Monica Mæland, politician
- 19 March – Julie Christiansen, politician
- 22 March – Euronymous, black metal guitarist (died 1993)[3]
- 27 June – Rikke Lind, politician
- 24 September – Beate Heieren Hundhammer, politician
- 6 December – Karl Ove Knausgård, author
Notable deaths
- 18 January – Trygve Knudsen, philologist, linguist and lexicographer (born 1897)
- January – Jacob Gundersen, freestyle wrestler and Olympic silver medallist (born 1875)
- 11 February – Herman Willoch, painter (born 1892)
- 29 February – Tore Ørjasæter, poet (born 1886)
- 2 March – Odd Hølaas, journalist and writer (born 1898)
- 12 March – Einar Kristian Haugen, politician (born 1905)
- 19 March – Aagot Didriksen, actress (born 1874)
- 25 March – Arnulf Øverland, author (born 1889)
- 31 March – Christen Wiese, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1876)
- 15 April – Martin Stenersen, sport shooter (born 1879)
- 25 April – Gunnar Andersen, international soccer player and ski jumper (born 1890)
- 27 April – Anton Olsen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist (born 1897)
- 11 May – Johan Andersen, politician (born 1902)
- 23 May – Georg Braathe, long-distance runner (born 1903)
- 24 May – Paal Olav Berg, politician and Minister (born 1873)
- 25 May – Kasper Idland, resistance member (born 1918)
- 1 June – Harald Eriksen, gymnast and Olympic gold medallist (born 1888)
- 3 June – John Bjørnstad, rowing coxswain (born 1888).[4]
- 6 July – Johan Sæterhaug, boxer (born 1893)
- 16 July – Sigurd Pedersen, politician (born 1893)
- 6 August – Tore Foss, singer, actor and theatre director (born 1901).[5]
- 13 August – Øystein Ore, mathematician (born 1899)
- 16 August – Paul Ingebretsen, politician (born 1904)
- 29 August – Arne Korsmo, architect (born 1900)
- 4 September – Engebret Skogen, rifle shooter and Olympic bronze medallist (born 1887)
- 24 September – Kjell Tellander, politician (born 1899)
- 3 October – Jens Martin Arctander Jenssen, politician (born 1885)
- 2 December – Arne Damm, publisher (born 1894).[6]
- 15 December – Håkon Bryhn, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1901)
- 20 December – Anders Endreson Skrondal, politician (born 1891)
- 30 December – Trygve Lie, politician, the first elected United Nations Secretary-General (born 1896)
Full date unknown
- John Aae, politician (born 1890)
See also
References
- ^ "Tidligere vinnere av Kritikerprisen" (in Norwegian). NRK. 2002. Archived from the original on 6 September 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
- ^ "Språk- og litteraturpriser" (in Norwegian). Riksmålsforbundet. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
- ^ Euronymous' headstone
- ^ "John Bjørnstad". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Tore Ejnarssøn Foss". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Fortegnelse over personer som siste gang er omtalt i utgaven 1968 med angivelse av deres dødsdatum". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 625. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
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