Events
- 1 May - The U-2 incident reveals that the United States uses Norwegian air bases as part of spying missions against the Soviet Union.
- 20 August - King Olav V declares television officially opened in Norway.
- 6 October - The Akershus University Hospital opens
- 1 November – Population Census: 3,591,234 inhabitants in Norway.
- 9 December - The Norwegian government decides, contrary to the advice of the Norwegian military leadership, that Norway will not acquire any nuclear weapons.
- NRK began its regular television broadcasts.
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“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
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