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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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| 1944 September |
| | | Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination | |
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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 |
| | | Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal wins the Jury Prize at Cannes | |
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