1990 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1990 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Margrethe II^[1]
• Prime minister  - Poul Schlüter

Events

• 2 February  - Squatters are evicted from the Black Horse, a former roadside inn, on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen after four years.^[2]

The arts

• 26 March – At the 62nd Academy Awards, Kaspar Rostrup's Waltzing Regitze is among the five films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film but the Oscar goes to the Italian Cinema Paradiso.

Sports

Badminton

• 8 - 14 April – With five gold medals, one silver medal and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 12th European Badminton Championships in Moscow, Soviet Union.
• 24 28 March 1990 Denmark Open
  • Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen wins gold in men's single by defeating Morten Frost in the final
  • Lotte Olsen and Dorte Kjær win gold in women's double by defeating Gillian Gowers and Gillian Clark in the final.
  • Thomas Lund and Pernille Dupont win gold in mixed double by defeating Henrik Svarrer and Marlene Thomsen in the final.

Cycling

• 24 March  - Søren Lilholt wins 1990 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen.
• 14 October  - Rolf Sørensen wins 1990 Paris–Tours.

Soccer

• Summer of 1992 wins Denmark a Europe tournament for soccer.

Births

• 14 March – Şaban Özdoğan, footballer
• 23 April – Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen, football player
• 1 June – Kennie Chopart, footballer
• 11 July – Caroline Wozniacki, tennis player
• 22 September – Peter Ankersen, footballer

Deaths

• 19 June  - Steen Eiler Rasmussen, architect and writer (born 1898)
• 18 December Grethe Glad, fashion designer and educator (born 1891)
• 30 December Albert Mertz, painter (born 1920)

Full date unknown

• Harald Salomon, medallist and sculptor (born (1900)

See also

• 1990 in Danish television

Notes and References

1. Web site: Margrethe II: queen of Denmark. Encyclopædia Britannica. 16 June 2019. en.
2. Web site: Portræt af Gjæstgiveriet Sorte Hest. highways.dk. 20 December 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20100818163213/http://www.highways.dk/hovedvej1/001,9_sortehest.php. 18 August 2010. dead.