1969 in Denmark

← 1968 1967 1966 1969 in Denmark → 1970 1971 1972
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	Other events of 1969 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1969 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Frederick 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 to Christiansborg by way of the American Embassy.^[2]

Full date missing[]

• The Danish Liberal Centre Party is dissolved.

Sport[]

• 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[]

• 7 February – Chris Minh Doky, jazz bassist, composer, producer
• 19 May – Thomas Vinterberg, film director

Deaths[]

• 2 January – Julius Bomholt, politician (born 1896)
• 16 December – Leo Mathisen, jazz pianist, singer (born 1906)
• 26 December – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith (born 1887)

See also[]

• 1969 in Danish television

References[]