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| 1850 |
| | | Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', has a great success touring the USA in a show presented by P.T. Barnum | |
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| 1867 |
| | | Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, making the volatile explosive nitroglycerine safer by combining it with kieselguhr | |
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| 1905 |
| | | More than 360,000 Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden, with only 184 against | |
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| 1907 |
| | | Swedish playwright August Strindberg publishes The Ghost Sonata, which has its first performance in Stockholm the following year | |
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| 1925 |
| | | Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood | |
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| 1926 |
| | | To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Swedish tenor Jussi Björling makes his debut in Stockholm, in Puccini's Manon Lescaut | |
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| 1939 |
| | | Ninotchka, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, is another great success for the Swedish film star Greta Garbo | |
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| 1939 September 19 |
| | | Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark jointly declare their neutrality | |
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| 1942 May |
| | | German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer flies to neutral Sweden to contact the British on behalf of conspirators against Hitler | |
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