Gunnar Kaasen and Balto

On February 3, 1925, Gunnar Kaasen was first in the 1925 serum run to Nome to deliver diphtheria serum from Nenana, over 600 miles to Nome.

The sled driver of the final leg of the relay was the Norwegian-born Gunnar Kaasen ; his lead sled dog was Balto.

The Norwegian Gunnar Kaasen and his lead dog Balto arrived on Front Street in Nome on February 2 at 5: 30 a. m., just five and a half days later.

On February 2, 1925, the Norwegian Gunnar Kaasen drove his team, led by Balto, into Nome.

Gunnar Kaasen and Balto

Gunnar Kaasen ( 1882 – November 27, 1960 ) was a Norwegian-born musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300, 000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925, as the last leg of a dog sled relay that saved the U. S. city from an epidemic.

Gunnar E. Kaasen was born the son of Hans and Anna Kaasen in Burfjorddalen, in Troms county, Norway.

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Balto was actually used by one of Seppala's workers, Gunnar Kaasen.

After descending to the next roadhouse in Golovin, Seppala passed the serum to Charlie Olsen, who in turn would pass it to Gunnar Kaasen and Balto.

Summers arranged for drivers along the last leg, including Seppala's colleague Gunnar Kaasen.

Gunnar Kaasen waited until 10 for the storm to break, but it only got worse and the drifts would soon block the trail so he departed into a headwind.

Charlie carried it to Bluff where he turned it over to Gunnar Kaasen.

After only five and a half days, Gunnar Kaasen — with a dog named Balto leading his team — was the last relay driver into Nome.

The event is also loosely depicted in the 1995 animated film Balto, as the name of Gunnar Kaasen's lead dog in his sled team was Balto, although unlike the real dog, Balto the character was portrayed as half wolf in the film.

Prior to the club's 100-year anniversary, the former Molde and Manchester United player Ole Gunnar Solskjær returned to Molde to manage the team.

* Rally racing-the team of Erik Carlsson / Gunnar Haggbom win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Saab 96

* Rally racing – the team of Erik Carlsson / Gunnar Palm win the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Saab 96

** the team of Per Malling / Gunnar Fadum won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Sunbeam-Talbot

The 1940s team included the talented Gunnar Gren, who became the top scorer in 1946 – 47.

In 1952, Marseille were about to be relegated, but Gunnar Andersson saved his team, finishing as top scorer with 31 goals.

The choice of rear-hinged doors was made by Gunnar Ljungström ( head of the development team ) as he wanted to lessen the risk of damaging doors whilst driving out of a garage.

Development was started in Linköping by a 16-person team led by engineer Gunnar Ljungström and designer Sixten Sason.

Following Champion's purchase of a 911 GT1 Evo for 1999, Gunnar Racing offered a custom race car to the team with intentions to race in 2000.

In all, Gunnar Gren made 57 appearances for the national team, scoring 32 goals.

The Pulpit was climbed by a Norwegian team ( Robert Caspersen, Gunnar Karlsen, Per L. Skjerven, and Einar Wold ) over a total of 38 days on the wall.

Il Barone ( The Baron ), as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of the Swedish " Gre-No-Li " trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A. C. Milan and the Swedish national team.

Jan Gunnar Solli ( born 19 April 1981 in Arendal ) is a Norwegian footballer currently playing for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer and the Norway national football team.

The only light in the dark was Gunnar Gren, being the top scorer in 1946 – 47 and was together with Gunnar Nordahl playing in a ' Rest of Europe ' team against England at Wembley.

Gunnar Garfors used to play football for Førde IL in Norwegian Second and Third Division in the 1990s and was the top goal scorer for the team two seasons.

German social scientists Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger theorize that midwifery became a target of persecution and repression by public authorities because midwives not only possessed highly specialized knowledge and skills regarding assisting birth, but also regarding contraception and abortion.

She had two sisters and a brother, Gunnar Ericsson, who eventually became a member of the Swedish parliament.

In competition with Johannes Antonsson, he became first vice-chairman of the party in 1969, and then chairman in 1971, succeeding veteran Gunnar Hedlund.

While there, he found not only his relatives, but became acquainted with the work of a number of major poets whose work was barely known in the United States, among them Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Antonio Machado, Gunnar Ekelof, Georg Trakl, Rumi, Hafez, Kabir, Mirabai, and Harry Martinson.

In Sweden she became an important guide for a number of poets from Gunnar Ekelöf and Karin Boye and beyond and her poems are now translated to Russian, Spanish, Chinese and other languages.

This isolation ended with the publication of Gunnar Erdtman's thesis of 1921 when pollen analysis became widespread throughout Europe and North America for use in studies of Quaternary vegetation and climate change.

When he became party leader, Christian conservatives like Finn Jarle Sæle, Kåre Kristiansen and Gunnar Prestegård praised Høybråten for his conservative views.

On 8 February 2006, he became Milan's second highest all-time goalscorer, behind Gunnar Nordahl, after netting against Treviso.

Gunnar Myrdal became the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in 1947.

Eli Heckscher's son was Gunnar Heckscher ( 1909-1987 ), political scientist and leader of what later became Moderate Party 1961-1965.

During his time with AC Milan, he became the ' Gre ' part of the famous Gre-No-Li trio with his international teammates Gunnar Nordahl (' No ') and Nils Liedholm (' Li ').

Regarding the currency crisis of 1947, Wigforss became Gunnar Myrdal's main political opponent.

By forming his government Gunnar became the oldest Prime Minister in Iceland's history at the age of 69.

He left the company ( which became a crown corporation in 1944 ) to prospect for uranium minerals as an independent mine developer, and in the 1950s he brought the Gunnar Mine to production at Uranium City, Saskatchewan.

In 1946 the club ended up second from last after a poor season, however the clubs youth squad won the unofficial youth championship, first defeating IFK Göteborg and then playing 4-4 against AIK in the final, winning on drawing the winning lot, in the youth squad there where players like Sylve Bengtsson, Gunnar Johansson, Olle Ericsson, Östen Ståhl and Åke Hallström, who all later became noted players in the clubs history.

2005 became a bad year for Halmstads BK as they struggled to a 10th place, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson became league top goalscorer with 16 goals, however in Europe things went a bit better as the club managed to qualify for the new group stage in the UEFA Cup after winning on away goal against last year runners-up Sporting Clube de Portugal, however the club failed to take a single point in the group and only scored 1 goal.

Birkerts initially practiced in the partnership Birkerts and Staub ; after that partnership broke up the firm became Gunnar Birkerts and Associates.