* 1942 – Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the Nazis.

About 30 fishing vessels used by Norwegian refugees were gathered and the Shetland Bus conducted covert operations, carrying intelligence agents, refugees, instructors for the resistance, and military supplies.

A number of students participated in the Norwegian resistance movement ; after a fire was set in the university auditorium, Reich Commissar Terboven ordered the university closed and the students arrested.

The American industry also produced films designed to extol the heroics of America's allies, such as Mrs. Miniver ( about a British family on the home front ), Edge of Darkness ( Norwegian resistance fighters ) and The North Star ( the Soviet Union and its Communist Party ).

** The Norwegian resistance movement in Oslo, Norway, arrests the traitor Vidkun Quisling.

** Max Manus, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II ( b. 1914 )

** Anne-Sofie Østvedt, Norwegian resistance leader ( d. 2009 )

The leading Norwegian encyclopedia mentioned the role of the paper clip as a symbol of resistance in a supplementary volume in 1952, but did not yet proclaim it a Norwegian invention.

Another site elaborates this story even further: " That symbol of resistance originally honored Johann Vaaler, the Norwegian Jew who invented the paper clip ".

Norwegian resistance was led by Olav Engelbrektsson, Archbishop of Trondheim, who invited the old king Christian II back from his exile in Holland.

Olaf Engelbrektsson again tried to lead a Catholic Norwegian resistance movement but he found little support.

The Norwegian armed forces, together with allied British, French and Polish forces, kept up an organized military resistance for two months, longer than any other country invaded by Germany, except for the Soviet Union.

The Norwegian national socialist politician Vidkun Quisling attempted a coup the same day, but was met with such strong resistance from the people that Nazi Germany deposed him within a week and installed a bureaucratic administration in lieu of a government.

The Norwegian resistance movement began on a small scale right after the invasion, but gained in strength, especially after the installation of Quisling's puppet government in late 1940 and its attempt to enforce the native brand of fascism, and to enroll labour, teachers and officials in its organizations ( for an anecdote of Norwegian civil resistance, see Paper Clip ).

Norwegian resistance ( generally termed the ' Home Front '), and its military branch ( milorg ) kept many German divisions tied down in occupation duty, and Norwegian spotters contributed to the destruction of numerous German warships and installations.

The Norwegian resistance also smuggled people in and out of Norway during the war ( typically to Scotland via the ' Shetland Bus ', and to neutral Sweden ), and, with the SOE, managed to destroy much of the world's supply of heavy water and cripple the Vemork heavy water plant at Rjukan, thus perhaps preventing Germany from developing an atomic bomb ( Operation Gunnerside ).

As one of the few elected monarchs, Haakon quickly won the respect and affection of his people and played a pivotal role in uniting the Norwegian nation in its resistance to the attack and five-year-long Nazi occupation during World War II.

Taking up residence at Rotherhithe in London, Haakon was an important national symbol in the Norwegian resistance.

* Norwegian resistance movement

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

In Norway, Haakon is regarded as one of the greatest Norwegians of the twentieth century and is particularly revered for his courage during the German invasion — he threatened abdication if the government cooperated with the invading Germans — and for his leadership and preservation of Norwegian unity during the Nazi occupation.

The German occupation forces ' delay in occupying Oslo, along with swift action from the President of the Storting, C. J Hambro, created the opportunity for the Norwegian Royal Family, the Cabinet, and most of the 150 members of the Storting ( parliament ) to make a hasty departure from the capital by special train.

* Quisling's Norwegian National government ( 1942 – 1945 )-The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with all authority held by German Reich Commissioner ( Reichskommissar ) Josef Terboven, who exercised this through the Reichskommissariat Norwegen.

The camp was established in June 1940 and named Norwegian Reception Camp, consisting of some 500 men and women, mainly foreign-Norwegian who had volunteered for war duty in Norway during the Nazi occupation in early 1940.

Anni-Frid Synni " Frida " Lyngstad was born in Bjørkåsen, a small village in Ballangen near Narvik, in northern Norway, to a young Norwegian girl and a German soldier, Alfred Haase ( 1919-January 2009 ), just before the end of the Second World War and the German occupation of Norway.

He served in the Norwegian Brigade that formed part of the Allied occupation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, after World War II, and became a dedicated friend of Germany during that time.

During the war he joined the Norwegian resistance movement against the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.

During the German occupation, Norwegian transmitters were used to broadcast German war propaganda to Northern Europe ( particularly Scotland and the northern half of Ireland where the sea path ensured a good signal ) and Scandinavia.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

During the German occupation, which lasted from 1940 – 1945, the university ’ s rector, Didrik Arup Seip, was imprisoned, and the university was placed under the management of a rector appointed by the Norwegian Nazi Party, NS.

It is estimated that between 10, 000 and 12, 000 children were born to German fathers and Norwegian mothers during the occupation.

The Norwegian government-in-exile rejected a Soviet – British occupation ; instead the British Army started Operation Gauntlet to evacuate Spitsbergen.

He also ordered Norwegian teachers and school children to attend a Hitler Youth exhibition in Oslo in February 1941, which led to the first school strike of the occupation, and ordered the confiscation of books by authors opposed to Quisling.

Albert Viljam Hagelin ( 24 April 1881 – 25 May 1946 ) was a Norwegian businessman and opera singer who became the Minister of Domestic Affairs in the Quisling regime, the puppet government headed by Vidkun Quisling during Germany's World War II occupation of Norway.

The Home Front ( Hjemmefronten ) was the Norwegian resistance movement during Nazi Germany's occupation of Norway ( 1940 – 1945 ).

In Norway, Vidkun Quisling, head of the government from 1942 to 1945 during the German occupation in World War II, held the title of Minister-President ( in Norwegian, ministerpresident ).

* in the thriller The Redbreast, a former WWII Norwegian collaborator with the Nazi occupation nearly succeeds in assassinating the Norwegian Crown Prince.

After a brief occupation, Charles retraced his steps to the Norwegian fortresses in southeastern Norway with the objective of capturing Frederiksten.

Being so close to Norway, the islands were of strategic importance in World War II and were a regular landfall for Norwegian boats carrying escapees from the Nazi occupation.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

Similarly, the Norwegian language is classified as a descendant of West Norse, while the written language used by the vast majority in Norway is derived from an older variant of standard Danish.

* 2009 – The Norwegian spiral anomaly appears in the sky over Norway.

* Norway: Sproing Award ( Norsk Tegneserieforum / Norwegian Comics Forum ).

In Norway, encyclopedias follow the unique history of the Norwegian language, the Bokmål variant having branched off from Danish during the 19th century.

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten: " The soldiers in Eritrea are financed in full by Norway.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

Norwegian supremacy continued until 1380, when the islands became part of the dual monarchy Denmark – Norway.

The Faroe Islands are an island group consisting of eighteen islands off the coast of Northern Europe, between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic, about half-way between Iceland and Norway.

* 1979 – Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian mass murderer, terrorist and the confessed perpetrator of the 2011 Norway Attacks.

The Order of St. Olav is the highest honor the Monarchy of Norway | Norwegian monarch may bestow.

He was born in Namsos, Norway, received his education from Bergen Katedralskole and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT, EDB Maxware and Cisco Systems, Inc ..

Harold Godwinson defeated and killed Harald III of Norway and Tostig and the Norwegian force at the Battle of Stamford Bridge.

Shortly afterwards Edgar and the King of Norway, Magnus Bare Legs concluded a treaty recognizing Norwegian authority over the Western Isles.

In the 19th century, as Norway was achieving independence after centuries of union with Denmark and Sweden, the stories of the independent Norwegian medieval kingdom won great popularity in Norway.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

Aasen's famous Dictionary of the Norwegian Dialects appeared in its original form in 1850, and from this publication dates all the wide cultivation of the popular language in Norwegian, since Aasen really did no less than construct, out of the different materials at his disposal, a popular language or definite folke-maal ( people's language ) for Norway.

With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute annexed the island for Norway in 1922 and the whole island in 1926 when Hallvard Devold was head of the weather observations base on the island.

Terboven nevertheless remained in ultimate charge of Norway until the end of the war in 1945, even after the proclamation of a Norwegian puppet regime under Vidkun Quisling, the Quisling government.

* Norwegian krone, the currency of Norway

The Kalmar Union ( Danish, Norwegian and ; ) is a historiographical term describing a series of personal unions ( 1397 – 1523 ) that intermittently joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden ( then including Finland ), and Norway ( then including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and, prior to their transfer to Scotland in 1471, Shetland and Orkney ).