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Gun Svensson
1937Jul, 10

Gun Svensson

Gun Svensson, Swedish politician
Gun Brynhild Svensson, née Nilsson, (born 10 July 1937) is a Swedish politician and blogger. She was born in Stensele and is a Pirate Party member and blogs under the name Farmor Gun i Norrtälje. In 2009, she won "Stora bloggpriset" in the category Politics and Society. And in the 2010 Swedish General elections she was a candidate for the Riksdagen for the Pirate Party.Svensson was a member of the Social Democrats until 1986 when she decided to leave the party. In 2006, she decided to start a blog, mostly about news and politics, and it also coincided with her new interest in human rights and the internet.

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  • 23Jan

    Leon Trotsky

    The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • 21Feb

    Spanish Civil War

    The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 12May

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • 27May

    Golden Gate Bridge

    In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
  • 22Jul

    Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

    New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.