1969 in Denmark

Events from the year 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

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederik IX
• 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.
• 8 May – The Museum of Medical History is inaugurated in Bredgade in Copenhagen.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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

January–March

• 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

April–June

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

July–September

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

Deaths

January–June

• 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)

October–December

• 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