Events from the year 1940 in Sweden
Incumbents Monarch – Gustaf V Prime Minister – Per Albin Hansson
Events
21 February – Pajala is bombed by Soviet aircraft. 3 March – Anti-communists plant an explosive device in the office of left-wing newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå. The attack kills five people, including two children. It is one of the deadliest political attacks in modern Swedish history. 28 March – Establishment of the anti-Nazi Swedish language political magazine, Nordens Frihet by Samfundet Nordens Frihet.Tora Byström (2016). "Nordic solidarity in print: the Nordens Frihet Association and its magazine, 1939-45". In Peter Stadius; Jonas Harvard (eds.). Communicating the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region. Burlington: Ashgate. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-317-16357-2.Erlend Eidsvik (2016). "Expressions of pan-Scandinavian sentiments in the magazine Fram among Scandinavian migrants in South Africa, 1914-1954". In Jonas Harvard; Peter Stadius (eds.). Communicating the North: Media Structures and Images in the Making of the Nordic Region. London; New York: Routledge. pp. 100–101. ISBN 978-1-317-16357-2. April – Initiation of regular transit of German troops through Sweden to and from Norway. 24 October – A ferry carrying members of the Boden Engineer Regiment capsizes on Lake Armasjärvi southwest of Övertorneå during a night crossing in poor weather; 46 men are killed. 30 December – Victor Hasselblad forms the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company.
Undated
Establishment of art magazine, Paletten.Johanna Rosenqvist. "Design as Craft. Performativity and Interpellation in Design History" (PDF). 10th European Academy of Design Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
Births
22 January – Tobias Berggren, poet. 12 May – Lill Lindfors, Finnish-Swedish singer 11 June – Gunnar Harding, poet. 18 October – Carl von Essen, fencer. 12 October – Gösta Pettersson, cyclist
Deaths 10 March – Agnes von Krusenstjerna, writer (born 1894) 16 March – Selma Lagerlöf, writer (born 1858) 24 November – Janne Lundblad, horse rider (born 1877). 12 October – Ann-Margret Holmgren, feminist and pacifist writer (born 1850)
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