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| 1950 |
| | | A prehistoric victim of strangling is found in Tollund Moss in Denmark, with part of the noose still round his neck | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Swedish economist Dag Hammarskjöld becomes secretary-general of the United Nations | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman wins international fame with his film Smiles of a Summer Night | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Danish architect Jørn Utzon wins the competition to design Sydney Opera House | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal wins the Jury Prize at Cannes | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is killed in a Stockholm street in an unsolved murder | |
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| 1993 |
| | | The Oslo Accords, brokered by the Norwegian government between the PLO and Israel, are seen as a breakthrough in the Middle East crisis | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Danish choreographer Peter Schaufuss founds his own ballet company at Holstebro | |
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| 2003 |
| | | Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the following day | |
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