Jonas Fohlin

This is the year when the Vietnam War ends and terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm. On TV, Staffan Westerberg’s ...

In 1972 the green wave sweeps over Sweden, guiding people back to nature away from the cities. Events range from escalated food prices in ...

1968 – the year of riots, fights and protests. And demonstrations: against the Vietnam War, against teenage fairs, against the Davis Cup ...

1967 – the year when Sweden moves to the right, at least in traffic. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi – The Beatles’ favorite guru visits ...

1965 – The Rolling Stones is coming to Sweden – a little rougher and tougher than The Beatles who were here a few years earlier. And ...

1963 – the year when the Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Sweden suffers from an smallpox epidemic ...

1961 – the year when Swedish UN soldiers are in the crisis-ridden Congo and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash. ...

1959 – this is the hot wasp summer, when half of the Swedes stay up ’til three in the morning and listens to the WC match between ...

1958 – the year when Ingvar Kamprad opened the doors to his first Ikea department store in Älmhult. The World Cup is played in Sweden, ...

1957 – this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the ...

1956 – the year when Elvis Presley breaks through and Grace Kelly celebrates a fairytale wedding in Monaco. In Ställdalen, a rail bus ...

1955 – the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman ...

1954 – this is the year when Marilyn Monroe wave to the American soldiers in Korea. In Sweden, a black hurricane takes the forest with it ...

1953 – this is the year when Frank Sinatra tours Sweden and Stockholm celebrates 700 years with the entire air force in the air. The ...

1952 – he year when Gösta Snoddas Nordgren sings Flottarkärlek on the radio and it becomes a hit. Gustaf VI Adolf turns 70. A Swedish DC-3 ...