September 17, 2009 • 29m
1960 was the year television came to Norway. That same year, Enerhaugen was leveled, the Tromsø Bridge was opened, and it became p...Read more
September 24, 2009 • 28m
1961 was the year humanity conquered space with Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of the Earth. Freezers entered Norwegian homes, and female pr...Read more
October 1, 2009 • 29m
1962 was the year the Nordland Railway reached Bodø. The world stood on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, ...Read more
October 8, 2009 • 29m
1963 was the year U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Jonny Nilsson crushed the confident Norwegians in the World Spe...Read more
October 15, 2009 • 28m
1964 was the year an American report concluded that smoking cigarettes was harmful, and The Beatles created hysteria during their ...Read more
October 22, 2009 • 28m
1965 was the year the twenty-year Gerhardsen era came to an end. Einar Gerhardsen stepped down as prime minister, and Per Borten t...Read more
October 29, 2009 • 29m
1966 was the year Indira Gandhi was elected Prime Minister of India. Swedes made cross-border shopping trips to Norway because sug...Read more
November 5, 2009 • 29m
1967 was the year Jens Bjørneboe was convicted under the pornography law for his book Without a Stitch. Sweden switched to driving...Read more
November 12, 2009 • 29m
1968 was the year Crown Prince Harald’s engagement to commoner Sonja Haraldsen turned Norway upside down. The Soviet Union invaded...Read more
November 19, 2009 • 29m
1969 was the year the Norwegian oil platform Ocean Viking discovered oil in the North Sea. Americans landed on the moon, and Mette...Read more