1968 in Norway

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Centuries:

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19th
20th
21st

Decades:

1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s

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

Film

Main article: Norwegian films of the 1960s § 1968

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

Kasper Idland

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)
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)

References

↑ "Tidligere vinnere av Kritikerprisen" (in Norwegian). NRK. 2002. Retrieved 21 October 2008.
↑ "Språk- og litteraturpriser" (in Norwegian). Riksmålsforbundet. Retrieved 28 March 2009.
↑ Euronymous' headstone

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