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Gustaf V was a devoted tennis player, appearing under the pseudonym Mr G. As a player and promoter of the sport, he was elected in to the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Fleming ( centre ) receiving the Nobel prize from King Gustaf V of Sweden | Gustaf V of Sweden ( right ) in 1945
* 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
* 1858 – Gustaf V of Sweden ( d. 1950 )
Jim Thorpe was called the " greatest athlete in the world " by king Gustaf V of Sweden
* December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V as king of Sweden.
** King Gustaf V of Sweden ( d. 1950 )
Swedish coastal defence ship | pansarskepp HMS Gustaf V with the current navy ensign, and the greater coat of arms in the stern.
Gustaf V ( Oscar Gustaf Adolf 16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950 ) was King of Sweden from 1907.
Gustaf V was born in Drottningholm Palace in Ekerö, Stockholm County, the son of Prince Oscar and Princess Sofia.
She was the granddaughter of Princess Sophie of Sweden, and her marriage to Gustaf V united, by a real blood link ( and not only so-called adoption ), the reigning Bernadotte dynasty with the former royal house of Holstein-Gottorp.
Meeting of the three kings in Malmö, 18 December 1914: Haakon VII of Norway, Gustaf V, and Christian X of Denmark.
By inclination, Gustaf V was a conservative man, and did not approve of the democratic movement or demands for workers ' rights.
Gustaf V seemed to be willing to accept parliamentary rule.
Gustaf V was the last Swedish king to be Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces ( between 1907 and 1939 ).
Gustaf V was considered to have German sympathies during World War I.
Prince Gustav Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten | Prince Gustav Adolf, Hermann Göring and King Gustaf V in Berlin, February 1939
Gustaf V attempted to convince Hitler during a visit to Berlin to soften his persecution of the Jews, according to historian Jörgen Weibull.
" At the behest of American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gustaf V appealed to Hitler for peace negotiations in 1938, " in the interest of peace ".
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Gustaf V tried to write a private letter to Hitler thanking him for taking care of the " Bolshevik pest " and congratulating him on his " already achieved victories ".
According to Ernst Wigforss, both Gustaf V and Prince Gustav Adolf attempted to persuade the Swedish Government to allow the Allies to transport troops through Sweden, though this was rejected by the Government because it was felt it would cause retributions from Germany.
Gustaf V was tall and thin.
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The castle of Abensberg was destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War, although the city had bought a guarantee of protection from the Swesidh general, Carl Gustaf Wrangel.
The first encyclopedia written originally in Swedish was Svenskt konversationslexikon ( 4 volumes, 1845 – 1851 ) by Per Gustaf Berg.
Erbium ( for Ytterby, a village in Sweden ) was discovered by Carl Gustaf Mosander in 1843.
On 15 January, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, like Aaltonen a former officer in the Russian army, was appointed supreme commander of the White Guards, and on 25 January the Senate renamed the White Guards the Finnish White Army.
Beginning in 1278, when Magnus III of Sweden ascended to the throne, a reference to Gothic origins was included in the title of the King of Sweden: In 1973, with the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf, the title was changed to simply " King of Sweden.
In 1907, total synthesis was commercialized for the first time by Gustaf Komppa with camphor.
The institute was also plagued by conflicts between the faculty and the founder and head of the institute, Gustaf Magnus Schwartz, who was responsible for the artisanal focus of the institute.
Thulium was discovered by Swedish chemist Per Teodor Cleve in 1879 by looking for impurities in the oxides of other rare earth elements ( this was the same method Carl Gustaf Mosander earlier used to discover some other rare earth elements ).
The first Vabis automobile ( though the name was not applied until after this ) was a four-seater designed by Gustaf Erikson in Surahammar in 1897.
The word " viking " was first popularised at the beginning of the 19th century by Erik Gustaf Geijer in his poem, The Viking.
The siege of Kronborg in 1658. During the Dano-Swedish War of 1658-60, Kronborg was besieged, attacked and conquered by a Swedish army, commanded by Carl Gustaf Wrangel.
In the late 1870s, the centrifugal cream separator was introduced, marketed most successfully by Swedish engineer Carl Gustaf Patrik de Laval.
It was the railway which Gustaf Nordenskiöld employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dwellings, in 1891, en route to the National Museum of Finland.
The Øresund Bridge ( which includes a 3 km tunnel ) between Danish capital Copenhagen and the largest city of Scania, Malmö was inaugurated on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
In November 1983, Garbo was made a Commander of the Swedish Order of the Polar Star by order of King Carl XVI Gustaf, the King of Sweden.
The party ’ s first auditor Gustaf Ekström was a Waffen-SS veteran and had been a member of the national socialist party Svensk Socialistisk Samling in the 1940s.
Carl Gustaf Christer Pettersson ( April 23, 1947-September 29, 2004 ) was a Swedish criminal who was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden.
Other historians claim that the Swedish flag was blue with a white cross before 1420, and became blue with a golden cross only during the early reign of King Gustaf Vasa, who successfully liberated Sweden from the temporary rule of the Danish King Christian II in 1521.
The element Niobium was so named as an extension of the inspiration which had led earlier to the naming of the element tantalum by Anders Gustaf Ekeberg.
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Gustaf Sobin was survived by his wife, Susannah Bott, his daughter Esther, his son Gabriel, an older brother Harris, of Phoenix, Arizona, and his devoted cousin, Mikki Ansin of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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