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The following lists events that happened in 1976 in Iceland .
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Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson is an Icelandic songwriter, music producer, and medical doctor, best known for having composed two Eurovision Song Contest entries for Iceland, "Heaven" by Jónsi in 2004 and "Valentine Lost" by Eiríkur Hauksson in 2007. He has also composed music for Chinese action film Wings Over Everest.
Katrín Jakobsdóttir is an Icelandic politician who served as the prime minister of Iceland from 2017 to 2024 and was a member of the Althing for the Reykjavík North constituency from 2007 to 2024.
Bjarni Benediktsson, known colloquially as Bjarni Ben, is an Icelandic politician, who is serving as prime minister of Iceland since April 2024, and previously from January to November 2017. He has been the leader of the Icelandic Independence Party since 2009, and served as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs from 2013 to 2017, a post he later retained under Katrín Jakobsdóttir and held until his resignation in October 2023. After serving briefly as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bjarni became the current Prime Minister of Iceland on 9 April 2024.
Þóra Björg Helgadóttir, commonly Anglicised as Thora Helgadottir, is an Icelandic footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Trained at university level in the United States, she formerly played for four seasons with Duke University's women's soccer team. She most recently played for Damallsvenskan club Malmö and had previously represented clubs in Iceland, Belgium, Norway and Australia.
Iceland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song "Heaven" written by Sveinn Rúnar Sigurðsson and Magnús Þór Sigmundsson. The song was performed by Jónsi, who was internally selected by the Icelandic broadcaster Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) in February 2004 to represent Iceland at the 2004 contest in Istanbul, Turkey. The Icelandic song, "Heaven", was presented to the public on 20 March 2004 during the television programme Laugardagskvöld með Gísla Marteini.
Reykjavík North is one of the six multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 2003 when the existing Reykjavík constituency was split into two. The constituency currently elects nine of the 63 members of the Althing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2021 parliamentary election it had 45,361 registered electors.
The following lists events that happened in 1993 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1981 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1934 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1931 in Iceland.
The following lists events that happened in 1924 in Iceland.
Magnús Brynjólfsson was an Icelandic alpine skier. He competed in two events at the 1948 Winter Olympics.
Events in the year 2018 in Iceland.
Sveinn Brynjólfsson is an Icelandic alpine skier. He competed in the men's slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
The following lists events in 1914 in Iceland.
Events in the year 2021 in Iceland.
The Klaustur Affair, also known in Iceland as Klaustur Recordings(Klaustursupptökurnar) or Klausturgate was a political scandal in Iceland triggered by audio recordings of a group Althing parliamentarians made without their knowledge at the Reykjavík bar Klaustur in late November, 2018. In the recordings, the parliamentarians make sexist remarks about some of their colleagues and discuss the appointment of an ambassador as a political favour.
Events in the year 2022 in Iceland.
Reykjavík was one of the multi-member constituencies of the Althing, the national legislature of Iceland. The constituency was established in 1844 when the Althing was converted into a consultative assembly. It was abolished in 2003 when the constituency was split into two constituencies following the re-organisation of constituencies across Iceland. Reykjavík was conterminous with the municipality of Reykjavík.
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