2006 in Norway

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Events in the year 2006 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch - Harald V of Norway
• Prime Minister - Jens Stoltenberg (Norwegian Labour Party)

Events

• June 7 – A meteorite impact event occurs in northern Troms County, Norway. Locals compare the resultant explosion to the nuclear explosion at Hiroshima. The impact location was apparently desolate, and no structural damage or casualties are reported.^[1][2]
• July 1 – The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) is established. This is one of the biggest changes in the history of Norwegian welfare aid.
• September 7 - Death of Eugene Ejike Obiora: Eugene Ejike Obiora, a naturalized Norwegian citizen originally from Nigeria who was arrested at a social services office while complaining against being denied social aid, dies at the hands of arresting police officers in Trondheim. The case made headlines locally and nationally, with accusations of unnecessary use of force and racism leveled at the local police, as well as uproar in African societies in Norway.
• October 10 – Atlantic Airways Flight 670, a BAe 146, slides off the runway at Stord, Norway, killing four of the 16 people on board.
• December - Norsk Hydro reveals a proposal to merge its oil business with compatriate oil and gas company Statoil. Gaining approval from both the EU and the Storting, the merger is completed by October 1, 2007.
• The service station chain HydroTexaco which was established in 1995 through a merger between Norsk Hydro and Texaco is sold to Reitangruppen.

Popular culture

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Sports

For football, see 2006 in Norwegian football

• July 23 – Tour de France 2006 is won by the Norwegian Thor Hushovd.
• December 17 - Norway wins the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship in Sweden.

Music

Film

Literature

Notable deaths

• 10 January - Thor Knudsen, politician (b.1927)
• 20 January - Einar Hole Moxnes, politician and Minister (b.1921)
• 6 February - Halvdan Ljøsne, painter (b.1929)
• 7 February - Harald Noreng, literary researcher and lexicographer (b.1913)
• 19 February - Godtfred Holmvang, decathlete and skier (b.1917)
• 28 February - Jan Brøgger, professor of social anthropology and clinical psychologist (b.1936)
• 28 February - Dagfinn Hjertenes, politician (b.1943)
• 28 February - Else Reppen, philanthropist (b.1933)
• 26 March - Kristoffer Lepsøe, rower and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1922)
• 18 April - Eivind Skabo, sprint canoer and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1916)
• 22 April - Magnar Norderhaug, zoologist and ecologist (b.1939)
• 14 May - Eva Norvind, writer, documentary producer, director, sex therapist and actress (b.1944)
• 28 May - Thorleif Schjelderup, ski jumper, Olympic bronze medallist and author (b.1920)
• 1 June - Kristian Ottosen, writer and public servant (b.1921)
• 23 June - Knut Haus, politician (b.1915)
• 23 June - Gunnar Skaug, politician (b.1940)
• 24 June - Børre Falkum-Hansen, sailor and Olympic silver medallist (b.1919)
• 30 June - Bjarne Johannes Hope, civil servant (b.1944)
• 4 July - Lars Korvald, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (b.1916)
• 19 July - Odd With, politician (b.1921)
• 28 July - Rut Brandt, writer and second wife of the German Chancellor Willy Brandt (b.1920)
• 3 September - Eva Knardahl, pianist (b.1927)
• 4 September - Ingrid Bjoner, opera singer (b.1927)
• 7 September- Eugene Ejike Obiora, died during police arrest (b.1958)
• 24 September - Per Stavem, shot putter and discus thrower (b.1926)
• 29 September - Jan Werner Danielsen, singer (b.1976)
• 28 October - Kjell Magne Fredheim, politician (b.1928)
• 30 October - Jens Christian Hauge, resistance member and politician (b.1915)
• 30 October - Aud Schønemann, actress (b.1922)
• 4 November - Torolf Elster, newspaper and radio journalist, magazine editor and author (b.1911)
• 19 November - Thorbjørn Lie, businessperson and politician (b.1943)
• 21 November - Svein Erik Bakke, entrepreneur (b.1947)
• 24 November - Nils Are Øritsland, polar researcher in zoophysiology and ecology (b.1939)
• 28 November - Thorleif Lintrup Paus, lawyer and diplomat (b.1912)
• 4 December - Sigrid Utkilen, politician (b.1916)
• 6 December - Otto Øgrim, physicist and author (b.1913)
• 23 December - Arne Sandnes, politician (b.1925)
• 25 December - Ingerid Vardund, actress (b.1927)
• 31 December - Reidar Strømdahl, politician (b.1913)

Full date unknown

• Bjørn Aamodt, poet (b.1944)
• Sverre Bergh, spy in Nazi Germany during World War II (b.1920)
• Sigurd Engelstad, genealogist and archivist (b.1914)
• Per Maltby, astronomer (b.1932)
• Eystein Sandnes, ceramic and glass designer (b.1927)
• Arne Hoel, ski jumper (b.1927)

References

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