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1920 In Denmark
Events from the year 1920 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Christian X * Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle (until 30 March), Otto Liebe (until 5 April), Michael Pedersen Friis (until 5 May), Niels Neergaard Events * 29 March – Christian X dismisses the elected government, a reserve power he had under the Danish Constitution, giving rise to the constitutional crisis known as the Easter Crisis. * 4 April – The Easter Crisis ends with Christian X's dismissal of the Cabinet of Liebe. * 26 September The 50th birthday of Christian X is celebrated. Sports Date unknown * B 1903 wins its first Danish football championship by defeating B 1901 20 in the final of the 1919–20 Danish National Football Tournament. Births JanuaryMarch * 31 January Albert Mertz, painter (died 1990) * 26 February – Hilmar Baunsgaard, politician, former Danish prime minister (died 1989) AprilJune * 16 April – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (died 1986) * 14 May Knud Lundberg, footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian X Of Denmark
Christian X ( da, Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947, and the only King of Iceland as Kristján X, in the form of a personal union rather than a real union between 1918 and 1944. He was a member of the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and the first monarch since King Frederick VII born into the Danish royal family; both his father and his grandfather were born as princes of a ducal family from Schleswig. Among his siblings was King Haakon VII of Norway. His son became Frederick IX of Denmark. His character has been described as authoritarian and he strongly stressed the importance of royal dignity and power. His reluctance to fully embrace democracy resulted in the Easter Crisis of 1920, in which he dismissed the democratically elected Social Liberal cabinet with which he disagreed, and installed one of his own choosing. This was in accordance wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In Denmark
Events from the year 1986 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch - Margrethe II * Prime minister - Poul Schlüter Events Undated Sport * 30 March – 5 April – With three gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals, Denmark finishes as the best nation at the 10th European Badminton Championships in Uppsala, Sweden. Badminton * Gentofte BK wins Europe Cup. * 16 March Morten Frost wins gold in men's sngiel at the 1986 All England Open Badminton Championships. Cycling * April – Kim Andersen wins Paris–Camembert. * August – Jørgen Marcussen wins Trofeo Matteotti. * Danny Clark (AUS) and Tony Doyle (GBR) win the Six Days of Copenhagen sox-day track cycling race. * Denmark wins one gold medal, one silver medal and one bronze medal at thje 1986 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Births * 16 January – Hans-Kristian Vittinghus, badminton player * 12 May – Christinna Pedersen, badminton player Deaths *1 April (in Canada) – Erik Bruhn, ballet dan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
''Den Store Danske Encyklopædi'' (''The Great Danish Encyclopedia'') is the most comprehensive contemporary Danish language encyclopedia. The 20 volumes of the encyclopedia were published successively between 1994 and 2001; a one-volume supplement was published in 2002 and two index volumes in 2003. The work comprises 115,000 articles, ranging in size from single-line cross references to the 130-page entry on Denmark. The articles were written by a staff of about 4,000 academic experts led by editor-in-chief Jørn Lund. Articles longer than a few dozen lines are signed by their authors. Many articles are illustrated. The encyclopedia was published by ''Danmarks Nationalleksikon A/S'' (Denmark's National Encyclopedia), a subsidiary of Denmark's publishing house Gyldendal that was set up for the purpose. The project was inspired by the almost contemporary Swedish ''Nationalencyklopedin''; it received financial support from the Augustinus Foundation and was backed by a governmenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Denmark
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Margrethe II * Prime minister – Anders Fogh Rasmussen Events February * 16 February – The Royal Playhouse on Copenhagen's waterfront is inaugurated with the play Hamlet, featuring Nicolas Bro in the title role. May * 1 May – Han Kjøbenhavn is founded. * 24 May – Prince Joachim marries Marie Cavallier in Møgeltønder. June * 2 June – A suicide bomber strikes outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad with at least eight people dead. * 4 June – al-Qaeda claims responsibility for the 2008 Danish embassy bombing stating it was revenge for the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. October * Realfiction company is founded in Copenhagen. Date unknown * The 25 øre coin is demonetised as the lowest-denomination coin in the country. It has been in circulation since 1874, when it was introduced on the decimalisation of the krone. The arts Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mette Koefoed Bjørnsen
Mette Margrethe Koefoed Bjørnsen (6 December 1920 – 29 March 2008) was a Danish author, conciliator and economist who was chair of the from 1988 to 1992. She worked as an education inspection at the Ministry of Trade's Supervision of the Business School in 1959 and was an associate professor of economics and statistics at the in 1964. Bjørnsen was an associate professor of economics and statistics head of department of the department of history at the Danish Teacher Training College between 1971 and 1990 and was chair of the from 1991 to 1997. She was appointed Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1986 and was upgraded to Knight First Class in 1993. Early life Bjørnsen was born in Frederiksberg on 6 December 1920. She was the daughter of the civil engineer Hans Georg Koefoed and Frida Rigmor Harriet Heiberg Møller. Bjørnsen had two siblings and was raised in Lyngby, which is north of Copenhagen. She enrolled at as a student in 1940. After Bjørnsen's mother insisted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Denmark
Events in the year 2023 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Margrethe II * Prime Minister – Mette Frederiksen * Government: Frederiksen II Cabinet * Folketing: 2022–2026 session (elected 1 November 2022) * Leaders of the constituent countries ** Prime minister of the Faroe Islands – Aksel V. Johannesen ** Prime minister of Greenland – Múte Bourup Egede Events January * 1 January Prince Joachim's four children, Nikolai, Felix, Henrik, and Athena, lose their titles of prince or princess, leaving count or countess of Monpezat as their most senior titles following a major public controversy in the royal family. * 10 January Leader of the Nye Borgerlige political party Pernille Vermund announces her intention to resign, being succeeded by Lars Boje Mathiesen, on 7 February. * 31 January Coop Danmark announces that the Irma chain will close with effect from 1 April after 137 years in operation. February * 6 February Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inge Krogh
Inge Marie Krogh (13 November 1920 – 6 February 2023) was a Danish physician and politician. A member of the Christian People's Party, she served in the Folketing from 1973 to 1984. She adhered to the religion of Christianity and played a central role in banning child pornography in Denmark in 1980 who had been legal since 1969 where Denmark as the first country in the world legalised pornography. She opposed legalisation of abortion. Krogh died in Horsens Horsens () is a city on the east coast of Jutland region of Denmark. It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 61,074 (1 January 2022) and the municipality's population is 94,443 (), making it the 8th largest city in De ... on 6 February 2023, at the age of 102. References 1920 births 2023 deaths Danish centenarians Women centenarians Members of the Folketing 1973–1975 Members of the Folketing 1975–1977 Members of the Folketing 1977–1979 Members of the Folketing 1979–1981 Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmar Andreasen
Dagmar Andreasen née Rasmussen (1920–2006) was a Danish businesswoman and a politician. In 1953, she took over the management of Rynkeby Mosteri, an apple juice factory which had been founded by her mother in the village of Rynkeby on the island of Funen. She introduced significant improvements, began to produce other juices, especially blackcurrant, and successfully promoted the Rynkeby brand name. When she retired from management in 1986, the firm had 170 employees and a turnover of DKK 200 million. On the political front, representing the Danish Social Liberal Party, she was a Member of the Folketing from 1968 to 1975. Early life and education Born in Rynkeby on 6 November 1920, Dagmar Rasmussen was the daughter of the manufacturer Rasmus Theodor Rasmussen (1882–1964) and the nurse Inger née Lykkegaard (1885–1965). In December 1945, she married the restaurateur Ankjær Johannes Andreasen with whom she had three children: Inger (1946), Knud (1948) and Erik (1948). The marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 In Denmark
Events from the year 2013 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Margrethe II * Prime minister – Helle Thorning Schmidt Events * 1 April – The Danish government launches a lockout of all the Danish teachers. The lockout lasts until 26 April. * 28 April – Danish Resistance Museum in Copenhagen burns. * 27–28 October – The St. Jude storm hit Denmark. The storm's max gust speed of 194.4 km/h (120.8 mph) was the highest ever recorded in Denmark. Culture Architecture * 29 April – Henning Larsen Architects' Herpa Concert Hall wins the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. * 30 May – Gehl Architects are awarded the Nykredit Architecture Prize at a ceremony in Copenhagen. * 12 June – 3XN's Frederiksberg Courthouse in Copenhagen and Lundgaard & Tranberg's Sorø Art Museum are among the year's nine recipients of RIBA RU Awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects. * 20 September – Henning Larsen Architects win the LEAF Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keld Helmer-Petersen
Keld Helmer-Petersen (23 August 1920 – 6 March 2013) was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract colour photographs. Early years Helmer-Petersen was born and grew up in the Østerbro quarter of Copenhagen. He started taking photographs in 1938, when he received a Leica camera as a graduation present. At an early stage, he became aware of the trends in international photography; in the 1940s he subscribed to the US Camera Annual and in this period became familiar with German inter-war photography, which had developed at the Bauhaus and in the Neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity) movement. The international prospect and an interest in contemporary art and architecture contributed to the fact that at the age of 23, Helmer-Petersen, as one of the first Danish photographers, began to work with an abstract formal language. Inspired by the Bauhaus and Albert Renger-Patzsch, he published in 1948, the bilingua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Denmark
The following lists events hat happened during 2006 in Denmark. Incumbents * Monarch – Margrethe II * Prime minister – Anders Fogh Rasmussen Events January * 21 January – The son of Crown Prince Frederik is baptised as Christian Valdemar Henri John. * 26 January – People in Saudi Arabia call for a boycott of Danish products, which spreads to other countries due to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. * 29 January – Libya closes its embassy in Denmark over the Muhammad Drawings controversy. February * 4 February – The Danish, and as a consequence of sharing the same building, the Chilean and Swedish embassies in Damascus, are firebombed by protestors denouncing the publication of what they consider sacrilegious cartoons depicting Muhammad. The Norwegian embassy is also burned. * 5 February – The Danish embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, is set on fire by protesters because of the continued controversy over the cartoons depicting Muhammad, and rumors of Qur'an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grete Jalk
Grete Juel Jalk (1920–2006) was a Danish furniture designer. From the 1960s, she did much to enhance Denmark's reputation for modern furniture design with her clear, comfortable lines. She also edited the Danish magazine ''Mobilia'' and compiled a four-volume work on Danish furniture. Early life Jalk was born in Copenhagen. After graduating from high school in modern languages and philosophy, she studied at the Design School for Women (1940–43) under cabinetmaker Karen Margrethe Conradsen. She completed her studies at the Danish Design School in 1946, while receiving additional instruction from Kaare Klint at the Royal Academy's Furniture School. While consolidating contacts with numerous furniture designers, she took part in the annual competitions of the Design Museum and the Design School's furniture department where she also taught from 1950 to 1960. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
