Historical place archive

Oslo in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Oslo in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

10 records3 event labels9 people1906–2009

Historical events in Oslo

1906

1906
Nobel Prize
Theodore Roosevelt · Russia War

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War and helping conclude the Treaty of Portsmouth.

1925

1925
Nobel Peace Prize
Charles Gates Dawes · Republican Party Government

Shares the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on German reparations.

1926

1926
Peace Prize Address
Charles Gates Dawes · Republican Party Government

Receives recognition for the Dawes Plan and international financial stabilization.

1962

1962
Nobel Prize
Linus Pauling · Military

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for campaigning against nuclear weapons testing.

1970

10 December 1970
Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Borlaug · Agriculture

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for work associated with the Green Revolution

1973

1973
Nobel Prize
Henry Alfred Kissinger · Republican Party Government

Shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords; Le Duc Tho declines the prize.

16 October 1973
Nobel Peace Prize
Henry Kissinger · Vietnam War, 2nd

Named co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for Vietnam negotiations

1986

1986
Nobel Prize
Elie Wiesel · Military

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for speaking against violence, repression and racism and defending human dignity.

1997

1997
Nobel Prize
Jody Williams · Military

Shares the Nobel Peace Prize for work toward banning and clearing anti-personnel landmines.

2009

9 October 2009
Nobel Prize
Barack Hussein Obama · Democratic Party Government

Receives the Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Oslo. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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