2014 in Sweden
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Events from the year 2014 in Sweden.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]March
[edit]- 8–9 March – Knife attacks in the Möllevången neighbourhood of Malmö, in which neo-Nazis connected to the Party of the Swedes injure four people who had taken part in a demonstration celebrating International Women's Day that had just ended.[1][2] Initial media reports of "a clash between leftwing and rightwing extremists" were widely condemned as misleading.[3][4]
- 16 March – Thousands demonstrate against fascism in Malmö, in response to the International Women's Day knife attacks the previous weekend.[5][6]
July
[edit]- 31 July-11 August - 2014 Västmanland Wildfire.
September
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- 14 September – The 2014 Swedish general election
December
[edit]- 2 December –
- 3 December – Prime Minister of Sweden Stefan Lofven calls a snap general election.
- 9 December – The Pirate Bay website goes offline after Swedish police seize its servers.
Deaths
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- 6 January – Lena Smedsaas, journalist (b. 1951).[7]
- 11 February – Alice Babs, singer and actress (b. 1924).[8]
- 6 March – Barbro Kollberg, film actress (b. 1917).
- 7 July – Bertil Haase, modern pentathlete (b. 1923).[9]
- 25 August – Lars Mortimer, comic artist (b. 1946).[10]
- 29 August
- Brasse Brännström, actor and screenwriter (b. 1945).
- Björn Waldegård, rally driver (b. 1943).
- 12 September – Bengt Saltin, professor of human physiology (b. 1935).[11]
- 29 October – Klas Ingesson, footballer (b. 1968).
- 21 December – Åke Johansson, footballer (b. 1928).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "'We can't rule out a Swedish Breivik': MP". The Local. 10 March 2014.
- ^ "Polisen: Nazister bakom knivattack" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 9 March 2014.
- ^ "Lögnerna om naziattacken". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 15 March 2014.
- ^ Samuel Merill; Johan Pries (2019). "Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö". Antipode. 51 (1): 248–270. doi:10.1111/anti.12451.
- ^ "Tusentals i demonstration i Malmö" (in Swedish). SVT Nyheter. 16 March 2014.
- ^ "Massiv demonstration i Malmö". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). 16 March 2014.
- ^ "TV-profilen Lena Smedsaas är död". aftonbladet.se (in Swedish). Aftonbladet. 7 January 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ Keepnews, Peter (14 February 2014). "Alice Babs, Who Sang for Ellington, Dies at 90". The New York Times.
- ^ "Bertil Haase". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "Serieskaparen Lars Mortimer död". Västerbottens-Kuriren (in Swedish). 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
- ^ "STOCKHOLM (AP) BENGT SALTIN, A SWEDISH PROFESSOR OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY". ad-hoc-news.de. 15 September 2014. Archived from the original on 16 September 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
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