Timeline Tuesday 30 March 1926

Events on Tuesday 30 March 1926 1

• 1926 Ingvar Kamprad born in Småland Ingvar Feodor Kamprad is born on 30 March 1926 on a farm called Elmtaryd near the village of Agunnaryd in Småland, southern Sweden. Småland is a poor, rocky region where the soil is thin and farming is hard — a place that historically produces either emigrants or extremely resourceful people. Kamprad inherits both traits: he works with ferocious intensity and treats every öre as precious. His grandmother gives him money as a reward for collecting berries; he uses it to buy matches in bulk and resell them individually at a profit. He is five years old.