When Amanda Signora Amundsen was born on 21 October 1876, in Svelvik, Vestfold, Norway, her father, Knud Christian Amundsen, was 25 and her mother, Minda Chrestella Pedersdatter, was 26. She married Oluf Jorgen Carlsen on 14 February 1894, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Vestfold, Norway in 1876 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 1 May 1902, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Birth year of Sigrid Undset. Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Alf, Erik, Thor, Egil, Hjordis, Iver, Per, Svein.
Norwegian and Danish: patronymic from the personal name Amund, Old Norse Ǫgmundr, composed of the elements agi ‘awe’ (or possibly ag ‘point of a sword’) + mund ‘protection’.
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