2008 in Norway - Events

Events

  • January 1 – The Agency for Public Management and eGovernment is established.
  • January 1 – Nordic Battlegroup consisting of military forces from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Republic of Ireland, and Estonia under the control of the European Union, is established.
  • January 1 – Mercury becomes banned from use in Norway.
  • January 11 – Norwegian police announce that they have arrested a 55-year old man suspected of being the sexual predator known as The Pocket Man.
  • January 21 – The OBX Index drops 6.4%, then the second biggest fall since August 1991 and the third largest in its history.
  • February 5 – The Standing Committee on Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs opens the case to decide whether three Supreme Court Justices will be impeached over their involvement in the Fritz Moen wrongful conviction.
  • February 14 – A political case centering on Manuela Ramin-Osmundsen forces her to resign from her post as Minister of Children and Equality and Ida Hjort Kraby to resign from her newly appointed position as Ombudsman for Children in Norway.
  • February 21 – An earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hits Svalbard, the strongest earthquake ever to hit Norway.
  • February 23 – The 8 km Eiksund Tunnel near Volda in Møre og Romsdal is opened.
  • February 26 – The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is officially opened.
  • February 29 – Anniken Huitfeldt is appointed Minister of Children and Equality.
  • February – Former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland is entangled in a political scandal over cancer treatments paid for by the Norwegian state, which she was not entitled to having previously changed her residency abroad.
  • March 1 – Austrian Matthias Lanzinger collides with a gate during a World Cup Super-G run at Kvitfjell, resulting in injuries that lead to his left leg being amputated below the knee two days later.
  • June 11 – Norway legalises same-sex marriage.
  • September – 2008 psychic phone call controversy: it was revealed that the Norwegian politician Saera Khan had racked up extremely high phone bills using the mobile phone with which she was provided for free by the Parliament.
  • September 9 – The OBX Index drops 5.57%, then the fourth biggest drop ever.
  • September 29 – In conjunction with the global liquidity crisis the index of Oslo Stock Exchange drops 8.3%, then its third largest drop ever in one day, but eclipsed only one week later.
  • October 6 – The OBX Index drops 9.71%, the third largest drop ever in one day.
  • October 8 – The OBX Index drops 6.44%
  • October – Bangladeshi-Norwegian parliamentarian for the Labour Party Saera Khan withdraws her candidacy for next year's elections when it is revealed that she has spent large sums using her parliament paid-for mobile phone to call psychic hotlines and then consistently lied to cover up the fact.
  • October – Controversy erupts when Holocaust denier and historian David Irving is invited to the 2009 Norwegian Festival of Literature at Lillehammer, to discuss his concept of truth, ending in Irving's invitation being withdrawn. Author Stig Sæterbakken resigns as the festival's content director in protest over the decision.
  • October 15 – The OBX Index drops 8.81%
  • October 24 – The OBX Index drops 9.24%
  • December 13 – Six people die in a fire in an apartment building in Oslo,

  • Svalbard Global Seed Vault opens February 26

  • Oslo Stock Exchange languishes during the global liquidity crisis

  • Official opening of Eiksund undersea tunnel February 23

  • May Hansen celebrating the June 11 vote outside the Parliament of Norway Building

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