2003 in Norway

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Events in the year 2003 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Harald V of Norway
• Regent - Crown Prince Haakon - from 25 November until 12 April 2004 (during the King's treatment for cancer and the subsequent convalescence period)
• Prime Minister - Kjell Magne Bondevik (Christian Democratic Party)

Events

King Harald V of Norway successfully undergoes a 5½-hour cancer operation

• 25 May - After docking in Miami at 05:00, the SS Norway is severely damaged by a boiler explosion at 06:30, that kills 7, and injures 17 crew members. A few weeks later it is announced by NCL that she will never sail again as a commercial ocean liner.
• 15 September - Norwegian county council elections.
• 15 September – Municipal and county elections are held throughout the country.
• 1 December – King Harald V of Norway was announced to be suffering from bladder cancer.
• 8 December – King Harald V of Norway successfully undergoes a 5½-hour cancer operation in which his bladder is removed and a new one constructed, at Rikshospitalet University Hospital in Oslo.^[1]
• 10 December – Shirin Ebadi of Iran receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.^[2][3]
• 12 December – Keiko, the orca whale who starred in the 1993 film Free Willy, dies of pneumonia while in the Taknes Bay located at the Arasvikfjord in Norway, where he had lived in the recent years.^[4]

Popular culture

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Sports

Music

Film

Literature

Notable births

• April 29 – Maud Angelica Behn, daughter of Ari Behn and Princess Märtha Louise of Norway

Notable deaths

• 13 January - Andreas Holm, politician (b.1906)
• 24 January - Rolf Kirkvaag, journalist and radio and television personality (b.1920)
• 13 February - Axel Jensen, author and poet (b.1932)
• 3 March - Kitty Petrine Fredriksen, politician (b.1910)
• 6 March - Claus Helberg, resistance fighter and mountain guide (b.1919)
• 17 March - Anne-Olaug Ingeborgrud, politician (b.1925)
• 5 April - Sigurd Manneråk, politician (b.1942)
• 6 April - Ole Otto Paus, General and diplomat (b.1910)
• 14 April - Olai Ingemar Eikeland, politician (b.1915)
• 22 April - Ola H. Kveli, politician (b.1921)
• 9 May - Hans Engnestangen, speed skater and World Champion (b.1908)
• 14 May - Ingvar Lars Helle, politician (b.1933)
• 24 May - Arne Skouen, film director and journalist (b.1913)
• 30 May - Lars T. Platou, electrical engineer and politician (b.1920)
• 13 June - Tor Stokke, actor (b.1928)
• 27 June - Magne Aarøen, politician (b.1944)
• 12 August - Håkon Kyllingmark, politician and Minister (b.1915)
• 5 September - Harry Hansen, politician (b.1919)
• 9 September - Otto Lyng, politician (b.1926)
• 8 October - Petter Thomassen, politician and Minister (b.1941)
• 10 November - Edvard Beyer, literary historian, literary critic and professor (b.1920)
• 3 December - Kristine Rusten, politician (b.1940)
• 24 December - Gunnar Alf Larsen, politician (b.1919)

Full date unknown

• Harald Magne Elstad, judge (b.1913)

References

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