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

Sports

Music

Main article: 1968 in Norwegian 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)
• 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)
• 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

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.

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