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2012 in Norway

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Events in the year 2012 in Norway.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Harald V
  • Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg (Norwegian Labour Party)

    • Events

  • 15 March – Five Norwegian soldiers died in an aircraft accident in northern Sweden.
  • 19 March – Six tourists are buried in an avalanche in Gáivuotna–Kåfjord, Norway, leaving four dead and one missing.
  • 10 April – A second psychiatric evaluation finds that Anders Behring Breivik is sane enough to face trial for the 2011 Norway attacks and serve a prison sentence if convicted.
  • 16 April – The trial of confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, starts in Oslo, Norway.
  • 1 May – Norwegian world swimming champion and Olympic medalist Alexander Dale Oen dies at age 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest during a training camp in Flagstaff, Arizona.
  • 15 May – A man sets himself on fire outside the Oslo courthouse where mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the 2011 Norway attacks.
  • 4 August – Death of Sigrid Schjetne in Oslo
  • 17 October - Netflix becomes available to Norwegian consumers.
  • 14 December – The Làhku National Park was established in the municipalities Gildeskål, Meløy and Beiarn in Nordland.

    • Sports

  • 27 July–12 August: at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Norway won a total of four Olympic medals including two gold medals. Eirik Verås Larsen won the gold medal in canoeing, men's K-1 1000 metres, and the Norwegian team won the women's handball tournament.
  • 1–9 August: the 55th Aeronautical pentathlon World Championships are held in Trondheim

    • Anniversaries

  • 1 June – 100 years since Hans Dons became the first Norwegian to fly in Norway
  • 21 August – 125 years since the Labour Party was established
  • 21 September – 100 years since the first flight at Kjeller Airport
  • October – 50 years since the first of the hugely popular Stompa movies, Stompa & Co., premiered.
  • 12 December – 100 years since the birth of Thorbjørn Egner
  • 21 December – 50 years since Norway's first national park, Rondane National Park, was established
  • 100 years since Kristine Bonnevie became the first female professor in Norway
  • 50 years since the German cultural institution Goethe-Institut first established itself in Norway.
  • 250 years since the establishment of Hadeland Glassverk.

    • References

    2012 in Norway Wikipedia
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