1982 in Norway

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Events in the year 1982 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Olav V of Norway
• Prime Minister - Kåre Willoch (Conservative Party)

Events

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• 11 March – Widerøe Flight 933 crashed into the Barents Sea near Mehamn, killing all 15 on board; this accident remains highly controversial in Norway.
• 2 July - A bomb explodes in a locker at the Oslo Central Station. A young woman is killed and eleven others are injured.
• 9 July - An unexploded bomb is found and defused in the cargo storage at the Oslo central station.
• 9 October - An 18-year-old teenager confesses that it was he who was behind the bombing of the Central Station in Oslo.
• 11 October - Eight paintings worth an estimated 25 million NOK are stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo .
• 18 October - the trail of Arnfinn Nesset, who stands accused of killing 25 patients at the Geriatric institution in Orkdal where he was the director, begins.
• The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs is established

Popular culture

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Sports

Music

Film

Literature

• Gunvor Hofmo, writer and poet, is awarded the Dobloug Prize literature award.
• Sissel Lange-Nielsen, writer, literary critic, and journalist, is awarded the Riksmål Society Literature Prize.
• Åge Rønning, writer and journalist, is awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature for his novel Kolbes reise.^[1]

Notable births

• 1 January - Mah-Rukh Ali, journalist and news anchor

Full date unknown

• Triana Iglesias, model and burlesque artist

Notable deaths

• 4 January - Ragnhild Hartmann Varmbo, politician (b.1886)
• 8 January - Bjarne Støtvig, politician (b.1898)
• 14 January - Ragnar Larsen, international soccer player, manager and journalist (b.1925)
• 26 January - Hans Jacob Ustvedt, medical doctor and broadcasting administrator (b.1903)
• 1 February - Eilert Bøhm, gymnast and Olympic silver medallist (b.1900)
• 11 February - Andreas Knudsen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (b.1887)
• 5 March - Torolv Kandahl, politician (b.1899)
• 29 March - Karl Aasland, politician (b.1918)
• 9 May - Erling Engan, politician (b.1910)
• 27 June - Ingvar Bakken, politician (b.1920)
• 4 August - Hallvard Rieber-Mohn, writer and Dominican priest (b.1922)
• 13 August - Bjarne Andersen, actor, stage producer and theatre director (b.1909)
• 2 September - Knut Hergel, actor and theatre director (b.1899)
• 1 October - Nils Helgheim, politician (b.1903)
• 13 October - Kristian Rønneberg, politician (b.1898)
• 19 December - Karen Grønn-Hagen, politician and Minister (b.1903)

Full date unknown

• Einar Bergsland, Nordic skier (b.1910)
• Finn Berstad, international soccer player (b.1901)
• Per Hansson, journalist and writer (b.1922)
• Trygve Hoff, businessman, writer and editor (b.1895)
• Anders Jahre, shipping magnate (b.1891)

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