Vidkun Quisling - Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887 - October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian politician and officer. He was Prime Minister of Norway during the second world war, and was tried for treason and executed by firing squad after World War II. Referred to as the Norwegian Führer, Quisling lived in a mansion on Bygdøy in Oslo which he called Gimle after Norse mythology. Quisling had a mixed and relatively successful background, having achieved the rank of major in the Norwegian army, and worked with Fridtjof Nansen in the Soviet Union during the famine in the 1930s, as well as having served as defense minister in the agrarian government 1931-1933. He was son of the Lutheran priest and well-known genealogist Jon Lauritz Qvisling..
Knut Hamsun - 20th century. Other important works by Hamsun include Pan (1894) and The Growth of the Soil (1917), for which he received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920. Despite his immense popularity in Norway and around the world, Hamsun's reputation waned considerably because of his support of Vidkun Quisling's Nazi regime during World War II. Following a meeting with Joseph Goebbels in 1943, he sent Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift. On the other hand, he also met with Adolf Hitler and tried to have him remove Josef Terboven from the position of Reichskommissar of Norway. After the war, he was confined for several months in a psychiatric hospital for tests to determine his sanity. However, in 1948 he was fined 325,000 kroner for collaboration..
Johan Nygaardsvold - from 1935 to 1940 (from 1940 in exile in London). Preceded by: Johan Ludwig Mowinckel Prime Minister of Norway Succeeded by: Vidkun Quisling.
July 18 - Aires, an explosion destroys a building housing several Jewish organizations killing 96 and injuring many more. 1996 - Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River in Quebec, beginning one of Canada's costliest natural disasters ever. 2001 - In Baltimore, Maryland, a 60-car train derailment occurs in a tunnel sparking a fire that will last days and virtually shut-down downtown Baltimore. Births 1635 - Robert Hooke, scientist (†1703) 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author (†1863) 1821 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer (†1910) 1853 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (†1928) 1863 - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (†1914) 1864 - Ricarda Huch, writer (†1947) 1864 - Phillip Snowden, British politician (†1937) 1887 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor (†1945) 1902.
History of Norway - Sweden. The union was dissolved in 1905 after several years of political unrest. Prince Carl of Denmark was elected King of Norway by referendum and assumed the throne under the Norwegian name of Haakon VII. World Wars Norway remained neutral during World War I, however 1156 Norwegian sailors were lost during the U-boat war. As World War II erupted, Norway insisted on remaining neutral despite warnings from some political factions that the country's strategic importance was too great for Nazi Germany to leave it alone, and attempts from the same factions to obtain political consensus to build up sufficient defences to withstand an invasion long enough for Allied reinforcements to arrive. In a surprise dawn attack on April 9th, 1940, Nazi German forces attacked Oslo and the major Norwegian ports (Bergen,.
Fascism - with the forces of conservatism by its opposition to the September 1920 factory occupations. Despite the themes of social and economic reform in the initial Fascist manifesto of June 1919, the movement came to be supported by sections of the middle class fearful of socialism and communism, while industrialists and landowners saw it as a defence against labour militancy. Under threat of a fascist "March on Rome", Mussolini in October 1922 assumed the premiership of a right-wing coalition Cabinet initially including members of the pro-church People's Party. The transition to outright dictatorship was more gradual than in Germany a decade later, though in July 1923 a new electoral law all but assured a Fascist parliamentary majority, and the murder of the Socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti eleven months later showed the limits.
February 1 - (Turin). 1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luís Filipe, are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon. 1913 - New York City's Grand Central Station opens as the world's largest train station. 1918 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar. 1919 - The first Miss America is crowned (New York City). 1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations. 1929 - Frenchman Charles Rigoulet is the first weightlifter to lift over 400 pounds in the "clean and jerk" method. 1943 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. 1946 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General. 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961..
Einar Gerhardsen - was Prime Minister of Norway from 1945 to 1951, from 1955 to 1963 and from 1963 to 1965. Preceded by: Vidkun Quisling Prime Minister of Norway (first period) Succeeded by: Oscar Torp Preceded by: Oscar Torp Prime Minister of Norway (second period) Succeeded by: John Lyng Preceded by: John Lyng Prime Minister of Norway (third period) Succeeded by: Per Borten.
Eponym - Thomas Derrick (c. 1600), British hangman Rudolf Diesel - the diesel engine Doily family (c. 1700) Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) - the fahrenheit scale Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), discovered the Galvanic response of muscles to electricity. The process of galvanization is also named after him. Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814) - advocate of what came to be called the guillotine, William Henry Hoover (1849-1932) vacuum cleaner Jules Léotard Maussollus - mausoleum, a monumental tomb Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) - mesmerism, hypnotise Molotov (1890-1986) - Molotov cocktail Joachim Neander (1650-1680), poet, for whom the Neanderthal (Valley) was named, and thus the Neanderthal fossil humans found there Charles Ponzi (1877-1949) - Ponzi scheme, a kind of fraud Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian traitor Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, or, the Marquis de Sade, whose writings gave the.
1887 - 11 - John van Melle South African writer February 18 - Nikos Kazantzakis, poet (+ 1957) February 20 - Carl Ebert, opera manager and director (+ 1980) February 20 - Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada) + 1967) February 26 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1950) March 3 - Rupert Brooke, poet March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (+ 1959) March 14 - Sylvia Beach, publisher March 22 - Chico Marx, comedian, actor (+ 1961) March 23 - Juan Gris, painter and graphic artist (+ 1927) March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, actor (+ 1933) May 11 - Paul Wittgenstein, pianist May 26 - Paul Lukas, actor (+ 1971) June 2 - Orrick Johns, poet & playwright July 18 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor July.
1945 - Francisco April 25 - World War II: United States and Russian troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are hanged upside down by Italian partisans as they attempt to flee the country. April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commit suicide as Soviet troops approach Berlin. May 1 - Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their 6 children. May 2 - The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. Soviet soldiers hoist the red flag over the Reichstag building. May 3 - Sinking of the floating-jails Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the RAF in the Lübeck Bay. May 3 - Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun.
1943 - capture Tripoli from the Nazis. January 23 - Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time. January 24 - World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conclude a conference in Casablanca. January 27 - World War II: 50 bombers mount the first all American air raid against Germany (Wilhelmshaven was the target). February 1 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling appointed Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers February 2 - World War II: End of the Battle of Stalingrad in Russia. February 7 - World War II: In the United States it is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in two days. February 8 - World War II: Battle of Kursk - the Russian army captures the city February 8 -.
1933 - Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats." March 20 - Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed March 23 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act, giving Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers over Germany March 31 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment. April 1 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust. May - Karl Jansky announces the detection of radio waves from the centre of the galaxy. May 8 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21 day fast in protest of British.
Treason - States there have been fewer than 40 federal prosecutions for treason and even fewer convictions. Several men were convicted of treason in connection with the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion but were pardoned by George Washington. The most famous treason trial, that of Aaron Burr in 1807, resulted in acquittal. Politically motivated attempts to convict opponents of the Jeffersonian Embargo Acts and the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 all failed. In the 20th century, treason has become largely a wartime phenomenon, and the treason cases of World Wars I and II were of minor significance. Most states have provisions in their constitutions or statutes similar to those in the U.S. Constitution. There have been only two successful prosecutions for treason on the state level, that of Thomas Dorr in Rhode Island and that.
September 10 - Allies signed a treaty recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 1927 - France wins the first Davis Cup 1939 - Canada declares war on Germany. 1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II. 1945 - Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany. 1951 - Great Britain began an economic boycott of Iran. 1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain 1972 - United States loses first international basketball game in disputed match versus the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany 1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal 1976 - A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia killing 176 1977 - Last ever execution takes places in.
Weserübung - date 5 yrs later) Norwegian capitulation 10 June 1940, two months after start of invasion In the far north, British and German troops fought over the control of the Norwegian winter harbor Narvik, important for the export of Swedish iron ore. The Germans evacuated on May 28, but due to the detoriating situation on the European continent, the British troops were evacuated in Operation Alphabet – and the Germans recaptured Narvik on June 9, by then deserted also by the civilians. As a consequence, Germany put pressure on neutral Sweden to permit transition of military goods and soldiers on leave. On June 18 an agreement was reached: Soldiers were to travel unarmed and not be part of unit movements. A total of 2,140,000 German soldiers, and over 100,000 German military railway.
Puppet government - military intervention, or the threat thereof, are often accused by their opponents of being puppet governments, for example the government of Hamid Karzai in post-Taliban Afghanistan or the Diem government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States. Indeed, such accusations are commonly used to destabilize governments, encouraging and justifing coup d'états. Most of the West-European governments under domination of Nazi-Germany during World War II are now and then called puppet régimes, not the least in Allied literature, and particularly the fascist-leaning: Belgium (1939-1945) - The violent Rexist movement had achieved some electoral success in the 1930s and many of its members assisted the Nazi occupation during World War II. Slovakia (1939-1944) - The Slovak Populist Party was a quasi-fascist nationalist movement associated with the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor Jozef Tiso.
October 24 - rock and roll star (†1959) 1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, composer 1936 - Bill Wyman, musician (the Rolling Stones) 1939 - F. Murray Abraham, actor 1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American civil rights activist. Congressman from Maryland 1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, golf champion 1961 - Mary Bono, Congresswoman from California 1962 - B.D. Wong, actor 1985 - Wayne Rooney, English football star Deaths 1672 - John Webb, architect 1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer 1821 - Elias Boudinot, second President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation 1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician 1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter 1944 - Louis Renault, automobile manufacturer, Nazi collaborator 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor 1948 - Franz Lehár, composer 1971 - Carl.
Nasjonal Samling - Norway before and during World War II, founded on May 17, 1933 by Vidkun Quisling. Fastest growing party before the war..
Norwegian resistance movement - do so themselves. However, the Germans had to revolt Resistance activities and killed several innocent, Norwegian men after any Resistance act. Some resistance acts have also been considered as war crimes See also: Weserübung, British campaign in Norway, Vidkun Quisling.
