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- <text id=91TT0190>
- <title>
- Jan. 28, 1991: Died:King Olav V
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 28, 1991 War In The Gulf
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 87
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- <p> DIED. Olav V, 87, King of Norway since 1957 and the world's
- oldest reigning monarch; in Oslo. A ski-jumping champion and
- a 1928 Olympic gold medalist in yachting, Olav helped
- reorganize Norwegian armed forces from exile in London during
- World War II. He became a popular postwar symbol of Norwegian
- nationhood.
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- </body></article>
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