Ett DC-3 Radarspaningsplan lyfter från Bromma flygplats i Sverige,för att avlyssna sovjetisk militär radiokommunikation i Östersjön.Ett Ryskt MIG15 skjuter ner DC-3an.Planet och de 8 Svenskarna ombord hittas aldrig,och Ryssarna förnekar all inblandning fram till 1991.Planet hittas åter i Juni 2003 utanför Gotskasandön.
Gustaf VI Adolf blir Kung. Sverigesbefolkning: 7 Miljoner
SAAB lansera sin första bil SAAB 92(Framhjulsdrift,2 dörrar och grön lack)
Statsminister Per Albin Hansson avlider. Tage Erlander Blir ny ledare.
Sverige blir medlem i FN.
USA släpper atombomber över Hiroshima and Nagasaki i Japan.
Tyskland kapitulerar,2a världskriget slut i Europa.
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg leaves Budapest with his driver and three Russian officers for a pre-approved meeting with Soviet commanders in Debrecen, east of Budapest, to discuss his humanitarian work with Jews. (He is not ever seen again in the West. During his time in Europe, he saved about 20,000 Jews from Nazi detainment.)
Volvo lanserar PV 444.
Ingvar Kamprad founds IKEA at his family farm Elmtaryd, near the village of Agunnaryd in Småland.
Victor Hasselblad forms the Hasselblad camera company in Göteborg.
Tyskland invaderar Polen 2a världskriget
Saab is founded as an airplane builder, and produces its first airplane.
Sweden holds the world record for low birth rate, at 13.7 per thousand. Deaths exceed births by 3%
Ivar Kreuger, Swedish financier, is found shot dead in his Paris apartment, presumably a suicide. He is estimated to have spent US$400 million of investor money in 15 years.
In Norrland, in Ådalen, troops fire on and kill five strikers who maltreated a group of strike-breakers.
Volvo produces its first production line car, the Jakob, in Göteborg. The car has a 28-hp 4-cylinder engine, and costs 4800 kronor. About 200 are produced. The company name was chosen because it means "I roll" in Latin
1897 - 1984 (86 år) 
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