1977 in Norway
Events in the year 1977 in Norway.
Incumbents
Events
- 12 September - The 1977 Parliamentary election takes place.
- 22 April – Ekofisk oil field blowout: an oil well blowout occurred at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, due to an incorrectly installed downhole safety valve.[1] At an estimated 80,000–126,000 barrels (12,700–20,000 m3) total, this is the largest blowout in the North Sea.
Popular culture
Film
Notable births
Notable deaths
- 17 January - Erling Fredriksfryd, politician (b.1905)
- 1 February - Edvard Hambro, politician and 25th President of the United Nations General Assembly (b.1911)
- 8 February - Eivind Groven, composer and music-theorist (b.1901)
- 3 March - Kai Knudsen, politician (b.1903)
- 7 March - Jørgen Leonard Firing, politician (b.1894)
- 22 March - Alfred Nilsen, politician (b.1892)
- 27 May - Kristian Birger Gundersen, politician (b.1907)
- 6 June - Olaf Fredrik Watnebryn, politician (b.1908)
- 13 June - Olav Aslakson Versto, politician (b.1892)
- 23 June - Asbjørn Solberg, politician (b.1893)
- 1 July - Torvald Kvinlaug, politician (b.1911)
- 2 July - Christian Schweigaard Stang, linguistics researcher and professor (b.1900)
- 7 July - Nils Kristian Lysø, politician and Minister (b.1905)
- 13 July - Edgar Christensen, boxer (b.1905)
- 24 July - Sigrid Sundby, speed skater (b.1942)
- 2 August - Alfred Sigurd Nilsen, politician (b.1891)
- 5 August - Gunvor Galtung Haavik, interpreter charged with espionage (b.1912)
- 17 August - Harald Økern, Nordic combined skier (b.1898)
- 2 October - Odd Frantzen, soccer player and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1913)
- 4 November - Frede Castberg, jurist (b.1893)
- 4 November - Sigurd Lund Hamran, politician (b.1902)
- 5 November - Gunnar Nordbye, United States federal judge (b.1888)
- 15 November - Olaf Johannessen, rifle shooter (b.1890)
- 24 November – Reidar Dahl, jurist and sports official, president of the Football Association of Norway (born 1893).[2][3]
- 5 December - Jon Mårdalen, cross country skier (b.1895)
- 25 December - Harald Strøm, speed skater and World Champion (b.1897)
Full date missing
References
- ↑ Oil Rig Disasters - Ekofisk Bravo Platform
- ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Dahl, Leiv Reidar". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 115. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ↑ Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Reidar Dahl". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
- ↑ Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1973). "Nagell, Finn". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 403. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ↑ Nøkleby, Berit (1995). "Nagell, Finn". In Dahl, Hjeltnes, Nøkleby, Ringdal, Sørensen. Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 283. ISBN 82-02-14138-9.
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