1969 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1969 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Frederik IX^[1]
• Prime minister  - Jens Otto Krag

Events

• 20 February – The North Sea Continental Shelf cases are decided at the International Court of Justice.
• 10 March – The Danish Technical Museum is inaugurated in Helsingør.^[2]
• 8 May – The Museum of Medical History is inaugurated in Bredgade in Copenhagen.^[2]
• 28 May – The LO School is inaugurated by the Danish labour movement in Helsingør.
• 15 June – The 750 years' anniversary of the Danish flag, Dannebrog, is celebrated throughout Denmark. 750 flags from all parts of Denmark are gathered on City Hall Square in Copenhagen.^[2]
• 24 June – The proposed lowering of the electoral age from 21 to 18 is rejected by 78.6% of voters at the 1969 Danish electoral age referendum.
• 1 July – Denmark legalizes visual pornography.^[2]
• 30 September – The government sets up a temporary Environmental Committee.
• 15 November – An estimated 20,000 people attend an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Copenhagen, marching from Østerbro Barracks to Christiansborg by way of the American Embassy.^[2]

Full date missing

• The Danish Liberal Centre Party is dissolved.

Sport

Cycling

• 22-24 August Leif Mortensen wins gold in Men's amateur road race and Denmark wins silver in Men's team time trial at the 1969 UCI Road World Championships.

Football

• Boldklubben 1903 wins the 1969 Danish 1st Division in football.

Music

• First performance in Denmark of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, 51 years after it was composed.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 7 February – Chris Minh Doky, jazz bassist, composer, producer
• 15 February Anja Andersen, handball player
• 20 February Thomas Warming, illustrator, painter, and author
• 19 May – Thomas Vinterberg, film director

AprilJune

• 7 June – Prince Joachim, second son of Crown Princess Margrethe

JulySeptember

• 21 September – Mads Lundby Hansen, economist (died 2023)
• 27 October Lykke Friis and former politician

Deaths

JanuaryJune

• 2 January  - Julius Bomholt, politician (born 1896)
• 12 February – Victor Gram, politician (born 1910)
• 27 March Ingeborg Suhr Mailand, educator (born 1871)
• 29 June Poul Sørensen, politician (born 1904)

OctoberDecember

• 9 November  - Paul Berth, football player (born 1890)
• 15 November Niels Larsen, sport shooter (born 1889)
• 16 December  - Leo Mathisen, jazz pianist, singer (born 1906)
• 26 December – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith (born 1887)

See also

• 1969 in Danish television

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick IX king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 16 June 2019 . en.
2. Web site: 1969. da. Selskabet for Københavns Historie. 2014-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20140726173722/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1900/1969.html. 26 July 2014. dead.