2000 in Norway

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See also:	List of years in Norway

The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Norway.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Harald V
• Prime Minister – Kjell Magne Bondevik (Christian Democratic Party) until 17 March, Jens Stoltenberg (Labour Party)

Events

January

• 19 January – Five people die when a bus is taken by an avalanche in Lyngen.

March

• 11 March – Three people die when a community center in Målselv collapse due to heavy snowfall.
• 17 March – Stoltenberg's First Cabinet was appointed.

April

• 5 April – Two freight trains collide at Lillestrøm Station. 2,000 people were evacuated because of the danger of a gas explosion.

May

• 19 May – Baneheia murders

June

• 23 June – The Frøya Tunnel is opened.
• June – Project Deep Spill: the first intentional deepwater oil and gas spill, which was done in order to study how crude oil behaved at depth.

December

• 1 December – King Harald V of Norway informs the Norwegian government about the engagement between Crown Prince Haakon and Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby.
• 4 December – The state-owned telecommunications company Telenor is partially privatised and listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

Popular culture

Film

Notable deaths

Synnøve Anker Aurdal, textile artist

Petter Hugsted, Olympic gold medalist in 1948

• 9 January – Olaug Hay, politician (b.1902)
• 11 January – Edvard Magnus Edvardsen, politician (b.1910).^[1]
• 21 January – Kristian Asdahl, politician (b.1920)
• 27 January – Asle Enger, priest (born 1906).^[2]
• 3 February – Aslaug Fredriksen, politician (b.1918)
• 16 February – Karsten Solheim, golf club designer and businessman in America (b.1911)
• 2 March – Audun Boysen, middle distance runner and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1928)
• 3 March – Egil Werner Erichsen, politician (b.1901)
• 2 April – Greta Gynt, singer, dancer and actress (b.1916)
• 2 April – Synnøve Anker Aurdal, textile artist (born 1908).^[3]
• 11 April – Olav Økern, cross country skier and Olympic bronze medallist (b.1911)
• 22 April – Arnt Eliassen, meteorologist (b.1915)
• 28 April – Anders Skauge, politician (b.1912)
• 19 May – Petter Hugsted, ski jumper and Olympic gold medallist (b.1921)
• 11 June – Aud Alvær, politician (b.1921)
• 26 June – Arne Thomas Olsen, actor, stage producer and theatre director (b.1909)
• 27 June – Dagmar Maalstad, politician (b.1902)
• 2 September – Johannes Sandven, educator (born 1909).^[4]
• 10 September – Haldis Havrøy, politician (b.1925)
• 4 November – Anneliese Dørum, politician (b.1939)
• 18 November – Torstein Tynning, politician (b.1932)
• 28 November – Margith Johanne Munkebye, politician (b.1911)

Full date unknown

• Bjarte Birkeland, literary researcher (b.1920)
• Finn-Egil Eckblad, mycologist and professor (b.1923)
• Jostein Goksøyr, microbiologist (b.1922)
• Kjell Holler, politician and Minister (b.1925)
• Jul Låg, soil researcher (b.1915)
• Arne B. Mollén, sports official (b.1913)
• Odd Narud, businessperson (b.1919)
• Christian Norberg-Schulz, architect, architectural historian and theorist (b.1926)

References

External links

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