1968 in Norway

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Events in the year 1968 in Norway.

Incumbents

Monarch – Olav V
Prime Minister – Per Borten (Centre Party)

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

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

Arnulf Øverland

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)

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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[1] "Tidligere vinnere av Kritikerprisen" (in Norwegian). NRK. 2002. Archived from the original on 6 September 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2008.

[2] "Språk- og litteraturpriser" (in Norwegian). Riksmålsforbundet. Archived from the original on 1 April 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2009.

[3] Euronymous' headstone

[4] "John Bjørnstad". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

[5] Bolstad, Erik (ed.). "Tore Ejnarssøn Foss". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 23 November 2020.

[6] 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.