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Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

Timeline of Events

1959

6.23.1959

A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.

1962

12.21.1962

Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.

1971

3.16.1971

Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.

1972

9.25.1972

In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.

1973

7.21.1973

In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.

1980

3.27.1980

The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

1989

4.7.1989

Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.

1990

6.19.1990

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.

1991

1.17.1991

Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.

1993

8.20.1993

After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.

9.13.1993

Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian agreement initiated by Norway.

1995

1.1.1995

The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.

1.25.1995

The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

2004

8.22.2004

A version of ''The Scream'' and ''Madonna'', two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

2006

8.31.2006

Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'' is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

2007

4.24.2007

Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.

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