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Everything about Sweden on 360n60: 1 news, 2 history, 2 dates in history. Each told in 60 words.
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History · 2
- History · 10 December 1901
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded
On 10 December 1901, five years after the death of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, as his will had asked. Wilhelm Röntgen won physics for discovering X-rays. Prizes also went to chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. They are still presented every year on 10 December.
- History · 1735
Linnaeus publishes his system for naming living things
In 1735, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus published Systema Naturae, a system for grouping and naming plants, animals and minerals. Later he gave every species a two-part Latin name, such as Homo sapiens for humans. Scientists around the world still use his naming system, which made it possible to describe and compare life on Earth.
On this day · 2
- On this day · 5 June 1972
The first UN conference on the environment opens
On 5 June 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment opened in Stockholm, Sweden, the first global meeting about protecting nature. It created the UN Environment Programme. The opening day is now marked every year as World Environment Day.
- On this day · 27 November 1895
Alfred Nobel signs the will that creates the Nobel Prizes
On 27 November 1895, in Paris, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel signed his last will. He left most of his fortune to fund annual prizes for those who 'conferred the greatest benefit to humankind' in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901.