1990 in Denmark

Events from the year 1990 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Magrethe II
• Prime minister – Poul Schlüter

Events

• 2 February – After four years of occupation, squatters are evicted from the Black Horse, a former roadside inn from 1771, today the oldest building in Vesterbro, Copenhagen.^[1]

The Arts

Film

• 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

• 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.

Births

• 14 March – Şaban Özdoğan, footballer
• 23 April – Mathias "Zanka" Jørgensen, football player
• 11 July – Caroline Wozniacki, tennis player

Deaths

• 19 June – Steen Eiler Rasmussen, architect and writer (born 1898)

References

See also