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12th December 1935: Nazis introduce Lebensborn programme

12th December 2020
Tagged as: Aryan, Birth Rate, Children, Germany, Himmler, Nazi, Norway, Poland, Race, Racism, Sweden, Women

On the 12^th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.

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10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded

10th December 2020
Tagged as: Discovery, Explosion, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Norway, Science, Sweden, Technology, War

On the 10^th December 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.

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8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

8th November 2019
Tagged as: Christian II, Denmark, Gustav Trolle, Gustav Vasa, Kalmar Union, Sten Sture, Stockholm, Sweden, Swedish Was of Liberation

Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch.

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27th May 1703: The foundation of St Petersburg by Tsar Peter the Great

27th May 2019
Tagged as: Hermitage Museum, Peter the Great, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Sweden, Tsar, UNESCO

In 1703 Peter’s forces captured Swedish possessions at the mouth of the Neva river, and it was here that he laid the foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress on Zayachy Island.