During the Cold War, Naval Air Station Keflavik played an important role in monitoring marine and submarine traffic from the Norwegian and Greenland Seas into the Atlantic Ocean.

** West Ice accidents: During a severe storm in the West Ice, east of Greenland, 78 seal hunters on 5 Norwegian seal hunting vessels perish without a trace.

During World War II, Greenland became effectively detached, socially and economically, from Denmark and became more connected to the United States and Canada.

During the 980s, explorers from Iceland and Norway arrived at mainland Greenland and, finding the land unpopulated, settled on the southwest coast.

During the 20th century Iceland gained independence, Greenland and the Faroese became integral parts of the Kingdom of Denmark and North Schleswig reunited with Denmark 1920 after a referendum.

During her lifetime ( 1353 – 1412 ) the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden ( including the Faroe Islands, as well as Iceland, Greenland, and present-day Finland ) became linked under her capable rule, in what became known as the Kalmar Union, made official in 1397.

During the ( north ) Polar Exploration of the early 20th century, Inuit of northern Greenland were found to be making iron knives from two particularly large nickel-iron meteors.

During the pupping season, arctic fox and glaucous gulls take ringed seal pups born outside lairs while killer whales, Greenland sharks and occasionally Atlantic walruses prey upon them in the water.

During World War II, the SS Wade Hampton, a Liberty ship named in honor of the general, was sunk off the coast of Greenland by a German U-boat.

During the Second World War, the Short Sunderland became famous as an effective anti-submarine patrol bomber, because its long range and long flying time allowed it to close the Mid-Atlantic air gap between Iceland and Greenland, helping end the Battle of the Atlantic.

The Breeding Biology of the Lapland Bunting Calcarius-Lapponicus in West Greenland During Two Contrasting Years.

During 1950-1951 members of Expeditions Polaires Francaises ( EPF ) led by Paul Emile Victor reported boring two holes to depths of 126 and 150 m on the central Greenland inland ice at Camp VI and Station Central ( Centrale ).

During the last glacial period, much of northern Europe, Asia, North America, Greenland and Antarctica were covered by ice sheets.

During its drift in the Weddell Sea ice Filchner investigated the existence of New South Greenland, an alleged coastline seen by Captain Bejamin Morrell in 1823, during a sealing voyage.

During the 17th and 18th century the people from the North Frisian Islands enjoyed a reputation of being very skilled mariners, and most Dutch and English whaling ships bound for Greenland and Svalbard would have a crew of North Frisian islanders.

During the start-up phase, other grants will be made available by the Greenland Parliament and the Danish Ministry of Research and Education.

2008 During a 3 week field campaign, Jason Box, Ian Howat, Slawek Tulaczyk, and Yushin Ahn conduct measurements of Store Glacier, west Greenland.

During this time, they face predation from humans, seals, Greenland sharks, skate, cod, and halibut.

During the winter, Air Greenland operates air services from Qeqertarsuaq Heliport to Ilulissat, Qasigiannguit, and Aasiaat.

During the expedition Wegener constructed the first meteorological station in Greenland near Danmarkshavn, where he launched kites and tethered balloons to make meteorological measurements in an Arctic climatic zone.

During Jul-Oct 1955 instrumented Loki I and Deacon rockets were successfully balloon launched ( Rockoons ) from shipboard off the coast of Greenland in cosmic-ray studies by The University of Iowa research group.

During the 1990s the Government of the time proposed a " Greenland Landfill " located within the parish.

During his tenure at Yale, Brewer took part in a survey of Greenland in 1869.

During World War II, the United States constructed a chain of airfields connecting the United States to the United Kingdom via Arctic Canada, Greenland and Iceland.

During World War 2,, he was a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

During the past year, these ligands have yielded some unusual five-coordinate complexes of nickel ( 2 ) and some interesting binuclear phosphorus-bridged complexes of palladium ( 2 ) ( see figure ), as well as new compounds of the well-known type Af.

During World War 2,, doctors in The Netherlands and Scandinavia noted a curious fact: despite the stresses of Nazi occupation, the death rate from coronary artery disease was slowly dropping.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

During the past 50 years, 7, 435 Schmidt camera plates were used to complete several sky surveys that make the data in USNO-B1. 0 accurate to within 0. 2 arcsec.

During his rookie season, he played in two games where he amassed a record of 5 passing attempts with 0 receptions and 2 interceptions.

During the winter of 2010 / 11, which was quite severe compared to those of the last decades, the maximum ice cover was 315 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, which was reached on 25 February 2011.

During the Financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, Bulgaria marked a decline in its economy of 5. 5 % in 2009, but quickly restored its positive growth to 0. 2 % in 2010, in contrast to other Balkan countries.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

During the early phases of the Big Bang, nucleosynthesis of hydrogen nuclei resulted in the production of hydrogen-1 ( protonium, < sup > 1 </ sup > H ) and helium-4 (< sup > 4 </ sup > He ), as well as a smaller amount of deuterium (< sup > 2 </ sup > H ) and very minuscule amounts ( on the order of 10 < sup >− 10 </ sup >) of lithium and beryllium.

During this period, Colombia ’ s telecommunications industry lost US $ 2 billion despite a profit of US $ 1 billion in local service.

During 2004 – 6, approximately 2, 000 kilometers of the country's rail lines underwent refurbishment.

During one stretch in May, the team went 2 – 17.

During its theatrical run the film grossed $ 2. 4 million, currently holds a 100 % positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has developed a cult following.

During the years between 1960 and 1965, the annual rate of growth of the gross domestic product per capita was 4. 4 % in the West Pakistan versus 2. 6 % in the East Pakistan.

During the 1990s, the FDP won between 6. 2 and 11 percent of the vote in Bundestag elections.

During Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's May 2011 visit to Kabul, it was announced that India's total aid to Afghanistan reached $ 2 billion after a package of $ 500 million was added.

During a state visit by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Georgetown in 2 March 2007, the governments of Guyana and Brazil signed several cooperation agreements and announced plans to boost trade between the two countries.

During Senate hearings in 1921, the commandant of the Marine Corps reported that, in the twenty months of active resistance, 2 250 Haitians had been killed.

During the mid to late 1980s, Microsoft and IBM had cooperatively been developing OS / 2 as a successor to DOS.

During the Iron Age, the best tools and weapons were made from steel, particularly alloys which were produced with a carbon content between approximately 0. 30 % and 1. 2 % by weight.