1951 in Denmark
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List of years in Denmark
Events from the year 1951 in Denmark .
Incumbents
[edit ]- Monarch – Frederik IX [1]
- Prime minister – Erik Eriksen
Events
[edit ]- 23 January – The hospital ship MS Jutlandia departs from Copenhagen, bound for Jorea.
Sports
[edit ]Badminton
[edit ]- 7–11 March – All England Badminton Championships
- Aase Schiøtt Jacobsen wins gold in Women's Singles at the All England Badminton Championships.
- Tonny Ahm and Kirsten Thorndahl wins gold in Women's Doubles
- Poul Holm and Tonny Ahm win gold in Mixed Doubles
Date unknown
[edit ]- Kay Werner Nielsen (DEN) and Oscar Plattner (SUI) win the Six Days of Copenhagen six-day track cycling race.
Births
[edit ]- 1 March – Birger Jensen, footballer
- 12 May – Jacob Groth, film score composer
- 25 July – Frank Aaen, politician
- 7 November – Anne Grethe Jensen, equestrian
- 17 November – Czeslaw Kozon, prelate of the Catholic Church
Deaths
[edit ]- 6 April – Marie-Sophie Nielsen, communist leader and founding member of the Danish Socialist Workers Party and the Communist Party of Denmark (born 1875)
- 14 May – Kristian Hansen Kofoed, politician (born 1879)
- 26 June – Gerda Henning, designer (died 1891)
- 28 June – Thora Daugaard, women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator (born 1874)[2]
- 19 August – Christian Geisler, organist and composer (born 1869)
- 23 September – Erik Arup, historian (born 1876)
References
[edit ]- ^ "Frederick IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ^ "Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon - Thora Daugaard". www.kvinfo.dk. 15 May 2003. Retrieved 2 December 2019.