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Two days before Sønsteby's death, Norwegian Financial Minister Sigbjørn Johnsen unveiled a statue of Sønsteby at Rjukan torg and stated, "Gunnar Sønsteby is a great hero who risked his life so that we could win our freedom and our democracy". [6] Sønsteby died May 10, 2012 at the age of 94 after a long illness. [6]
In 2017, the Gunnar Sønsteby Prize was awarded to all Norwegian veterans of international military operations. This came to over 100,000 persons. [ 3 ] At a ceremony at Fanehallen in Oslo, Sunde, the head of the prize jury, said that the prize was “a tribute to the individual veteran and the effort, personal courage, and sacrifice they have ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
A Detroit mom has been charged with murder after "smothering" and choking her 9-year-old son to death, burying him in a backyard grave and then skipping town, according to prosecutors.
Two Long Island women were arrested for their roles in the month-long disappearance of 14-year-old Emmarae Gervasi — increasing the number of suspects in the case to seven.. Suffolk County ...
Exactly one year ago, a small town was left shocked after a neighbourhood became a crime scene. Police arrived at a house in Costessey on the outskirts of Norwich to find the bodies of four people ...
Gunnar Sønsteby (1918–2012), Norwegian World War II resistance fighter; Sven Sønsteby (1933–2014), Norwegian illustrator This page was last edited on 4 October ...
The entry called "Tallum" by the young architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz was selected. After changes made to the design on the recommendations of the competition jury, work began in 1917 on land that had been old gravel quarries that were overgrown with pine trees, and the first phase was completed three years later. The architects ...