• Events from the year 1959 in Denmark. Monarch – Frederik IX Prime minister – H. C. Hansen 7 January – MS Hans Hedtoft departs from Copenhagen on her maiden...
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  • This is a list of Danish television related events from 1959. 12 February – Birthe Wilke is selected to represent Denmark at the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest...
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    1959 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1959. 1959 (MCMLIX) was...
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  • Denmark was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Uh, jeg ville ønske jeg var dig", composed by Otto Lington, with lyrics by...
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  • The 1959 Danish 1st Division season was the 14th edition of Danish 1st Division annual football competition in Denmark. It was contested by 12 teams. Vejle...
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    Minister of Denmark (Danish: Undervisningsminister, pronounced [ˈɔnɐˌviˀsne̝ŋsmiˌnistɐ]), or Minister of Education in Denmark, is a Danish minister office...
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    1980, the number of people of Danish descent, defined as having at least one parent who was born in Denmark and has Danish citizenship, has remained constant...
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  • MS Hans Hedtoft (category 1959 in Denmark)
    MS Hans Hedtoft was a Danish cargo passenger liner that struck an iceberg and sank on 30 January 1959 on her maiden voyage off the coast of Western Greenland...
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    Seipelt (Austria) 16 September 1959 21:30 CET Ibrox Park, Glasgow Attendance: 69,423 Referee: Leo Helge (Denmark) 30 September 1959 21:00 CET Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion...
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  • The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...
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  • The 1959–60 Danish Ice Hockey Championship season was the third season of ice hockey in Denmark. Three teams participated in the final tournament, and...
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    Association football games played by the Denmark national football team between 1950 and 1959. During the 1950s, the Danish national team played 72 games, winning...
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    February 1959 by Aksel Larsen, a former leader of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP), who was removed for criticizing the Soviet intervention in the Hungarian...
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    D = Draw; L = Loss Denmark  v  Ukraine Denmark  v   Switzerland Lithuania  v  Denmark Denmark  v  Wales France  v  Denmark Denmark  v  Slovakia Czech...
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    The German invasion of Denmark (German: Operation Weserübung – Süd), was the German attack on Denmark on 9 April 1940, during the Second World War. The...
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    Margrethe II (Danish: [mɑˈkʁeˀtə]; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen...
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    The Denmark national football team (Danish: Danmarks herre-fodboldlandshold or herrelandsholdet) represents Denmark and Greenland in men's international...
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    Peter Skov-Jakobsen (category 1959 births)
    Peter Henrik Skov-Jakobsen (born 22 February 1959 in Korup, Denmark) is a Danish bishop and theologian. Since 2009 he has been the sixth bishop of the...
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    Karen Blixen (category CS1 Danish-language sources (da))
    September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries;...
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    [kalaːɬːit nʉnaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the larger...
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    Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Ανδρέας; romanized: Andréas; 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 1882 – 3 December 1944) was the seventh child and...
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    216), 1959, page 3 (in Danish) Svane, Erling (1994). Det danske rigsvåben og kongevåben (in Danish). Odense University Press. p. 177. "Danish Government...
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    The culture of Denmark has a rich artistic and scientific heritage. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the philosophical essays of...
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    Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street. It is near St Giles in the Fields...
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  • in Denmark was established in the 1950s and was run by a monopoly with only one channel available until the 1980s. The first television broadcasts in...
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    Margrethe II of Denmark. He served as her royal consort from Margrethe's accession on 14 January 1972 until his death in 2018. Henrik was born in the French...
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  • The 10th century in Denmark saw the emergence of the country into historical records and the conversion of the country to Christianity. The 950s are when...
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    Annette Stroyberg (category Deaths from cancer in Denmark)
    (7 December 1936 – 12 December 2005) was a Danish actress. Her films included Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959), which was directed by her first husband...
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  • (1916–2014), Norwegian politician Finn Nørgaard (1959–2015), Danish filmmaker Finn Pedersen (1925–2012), Danish Olympic rower Finn Ronne (1899–1980), Norwegian...
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  • Henning Larsen Architects (category 1959 establishments in Denmark)
    based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1959 by Henning Larsen, it has around 750 employees.[citation needed] In 2008, it opened an office in Riyadh...
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