2005 in Sweden

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Events from the year 2005 in Sweden

Incumbents

Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister – Göran Persson

Events

January 1 - The train service between Oslo and Stockholm is closed after 133 years.
January 8–9 – A strong storm, Hurricane Gudrun, hits northern Europe, including southern Sweden. At least 18 people are killed, 300,000 households and 75 million cubic meters of forest are felled.
January 18 - The company SIBA's CEO Fabian Bengtsson disappears in central Gothenburg, probably kidnapped.
February 3 – Fabian Bengtsson is found alive in Gothenburg.
February 5 - Sweden's Prime Minister Göran Persson is appointed an honorary doctor of medicine at Örebro University. The appointment arouses strong protests, as it is considered a reward for the prime minister's having made Örebro University into a university.
March 11 - Nintendo launches its new game console Nintendo DS in Sweden and the rest of Europe.
March 21 - An arson attack is carried out against the Communist Party's Röda Stjärnan bookstore in Jönköping.
April 15 -The Swedish political party Feministisk initiative is founded, but the decision to run in the parliamentary elections was made on 9 September 2005.
May 16 – Second day of Pentecost is no longer a public holiday in Sweden, because the national day would be instead.
May 29- The commemorative note "Tumba Bruk 250 years" is issued, Sveriges riksbank
May 31 – The Brattås murders.
June 1 – Smoking ban is introduced in restaurants, pubs and cafes in Sweden.
Swedish national day becomes a public holiday
June 6 - Sweden's national day becomes holiday.
June 10 – The new Svinesund Bridge is inaugurated and the older bridge is named the Old Svinesund Bridge.
July 1 - A new Swedish copyright law enters into force. The file sharing debate flares up again.
September 11 – The Armed Forces' telecommunications network and ground telecommunications unit (FMTM) is established.
September 18 - The Swedish church holds a church referendum.
November 1 – The healthcare guarantee starts to apply throughout Sweden.
November 25 – A Swedish vehicle from the Swedish Foreign Forces is exposed to a bomb attack during a reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan. Two of the four people in the vehicle later died in hospital.
December 3 – The yuletide in Gävle is lit by two dressed-up men at 9:08 p.m.
December 10 – The 2005 Nobel Prize (see prize winners below) is awarded as usual in Stockholm's concert hall and in Oslo, with associated ceremonies.

Popular culture

Literature

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , crime novel by Stieg Larsson
The Stone Cutter , crime novel by Camilla Läckberg
Det lysande ögat , children's detective fiction

Film

4 November – Mother of Mine , directed by Klaus Härö, released in Sweden
11 November – Made in YU released
18 November – Storm released

Born

March 11 – Axel Sandin Pelikka, Swedish ice hockey player.

Deaths

6 January – Ivan Lidholm, 94, Swedish track and field athlete and sports journalist.
13 January – Bengt Janson, 47, Swedish antique dealer, teacher and TV presenter.
8 February – Germund Dahlquist, mathematician (born 1925)
13 February – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (born 1918)
12 May – Monica Zetterlund, singer and actress (born 1937)
28 November – Carl Forssell, fencer (born 1917).^[1]

Full date missing

Anna Westberg, novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1946).^[2]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lennart Geijer</span> Swedish social democrat politician

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References

↑ "Carl Forssell". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 November 2014.
↑ Godal, Anne Marit (ed.). "Anna Westberg". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 16 November 2014.

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