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1907
 
    
Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year       
1912
 
   
Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown      
1912
 
   
The first sea-going diesel-powered ship, the Selandia, is constructed and launched in Denmark      
1913
 
    
The Danish physicist Niels Bohr uses quantum theory as a key to understanding the structure of the atom       
1913
 
   
18-year-old Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad makes her debut in Oslo      
1920
 
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A plebiscite in Schleswig establishes the border between Denmark and Germany     
1925
 
    
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood       
1926
 
   
To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates      
1926
 
    
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York       
1928
 
   
Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games