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1953
Swedish economist Dag Hammarskjöld becomes secretary-general of the United Nations
1955
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman wins international fame with his film
Smiles of a Summer Night
1957
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film
The Seventh Seal
wins the Jury Prize at Cannes
1976
The Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins the first of five consecutive singles titles at Wimbledon
1986
Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is killed in a Stockholm street in an unsolved murder
2003
Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the following day
2011 July 7
Surgeons in Sweden achieve the first artificial living organ transplant, after using the patient's own stem cells to coat a plastic replica of his windpipe
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