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Sven Olof Joachim Palme (⫽ ˈ p ɑː l m ə ⫽; Swedish: [ˈûːlɔf ˈpâlːmɛ] ⓘ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and 1982 to 1986.
Jun 10, 2020 · Bedeviled for over 34 years by the mysterious killing of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister who was shot in the back by an unknown assailant on a quiet Stockholm street, Sweden’s judiciary...
Jun 10, 2020 · Sweden has ended a 34-year investigation into the unsolved murder of the country’s then-Prime Minister Olof Palme, saying the chief suspect is dead. Palme was gunned down as he took a...
On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbeth Palme was slightly wounded by a second shot.
Jun 10, 2020 · Palme's government had declared the Kurdish militant PKK group terrorists Lisbet Palme died in 2018 without knowing conclusively who murdered her husband. Who assassinated this prime minister...
May 23, 2024 · Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden (1969–76, 1982–86), prominent leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Workers’ Party (Sweden’s oldest continuing party), and the country’s best-known international politician. Palme was assassinated in 1986. Learn more about his life and career.
Jun 7, 2020 · Olof Palme was assassinated on a Friday night walking down Sweden's busiest street. On a Friday night more than thirty years ago, Sweden's prime minister went to the movies. Controversial and...
Jun 10, 2020 · Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was fatally shot at point-blank range on one of the busiest streets in downtown Stockholm as he and his wife, Lisbet, were leaving a movie theater on Feb. 28,...
Jun 10, 2020 · Stockholm — Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday named their main suspect in the 1986 killing of then-Prime Minister Olof Palme, closing the murder case that has gripped the Scandanavian...
Jun 10, 2020 · Olof Palme: Sweden closes investigation into prime minister's unsolved murder in 1986. The prime suspect killed himself in 2000. Other suspects included Kurdish militias, Indian arms dealers and...