1952 in Norway

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1952
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Norway

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Centuries:

18th
19th
20th
21st

Decades:

1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s

Incumbents

Monarch - Haakon VII
Prime Minister - Oscar Torp (Labour Party)

Events

The "Oslo flag" used during the closing ceremonies of the 1952 Winter Games

7 January – 15 died in a mine explosion in Svalbard.
14–25 February – 1952 Winter Olympics are held in Oslo.
Around April 4 five Norwegian seal hunting vessels went down in a storm in the West Ice. The West Ice accidents claimed 78 lives in total.
24 November - Folketeatret (lit. The People's Theatre) opened in Oslo.

Popular culture

Sports

Olaf Barda, chess player, becomes the first Norwegian to be awarded the title of International Master

Film

Main article: Norwegian films of the 1950s § 1952

20 March – Thor Heyerdahl received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 24th Academy Awards for the Kon-Tiki film.

Notable births

25 January - Inga Balstad, politician
11 March - Vigdis Giltun, politician
6 March – Nils Johan Ringdal, author and historian (died 2008)^[1]
25 April - Ketil Bjørnstad, pianist and composer
2 May - Gunda Johansen, politician
13 May - Lars Amund Vaage, author and playwright
19 May - Guri Ingebrigtsen, politician
10 July - Kari Husøy, politician
18 July - Per Petterson, novelist
27 July - Torfinn Bjarkøy, civil servant
8 August - Jostein Gaarder, author
19 August - Lillian Müller, model and actress
18 September - Gunn Olsen, politician
25 October - Helen Fløisand, politician
18 November - Gerd Janne Kristoffersen, politician

Full date unknown

Anne-Lise Bakken, politician and Minister
Magnus Takvam, journalist

Notable deaths

Knut Hamsun

11 February - Ola Torstensen Lyngstad, politician (born 1894)
14 February - Johan Clementz, boxer (born 1894)
19 February - Knut Hamsun, author, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1859)
13 March - Johan Nygaardsvold, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (born 1879)
20 April - Sigurd Maseng, diplomat (born 1894)
14 May - Carl Julius Alvin Westerlund, politician (born 1885)
13 June - Andreas Brecke, sailor and Olympic gold medallist (born 1879)
28 September - Ingvald Tøndel, politician (born 1887)
14 November - Aldor Ingebrigtsen, politician (born 1888)
14 December - Fartein Valen, composer and musical theorist (born 1887)

Full date unknown

Adam Egede-Nissen, politician (born 1868)
Christian Wegner Haaland, ship-owner and politician (born 1892)
Knut Liestøl, politician and Minister (born 1881)
William Martin Nygaard, publisher and politician (born 1865)

References

↑ Verdens Gang (in Norwegian)

External links

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