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2000 Tony Awards, Copenhagen, Contact, The Real Thing revival, and Kiss Me Kate revival won major awards

1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

1993 Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen

1992 "Les Miserables" opens at Ostregaswerks, Copenhagen

1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)

1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)

1982 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)

1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)

1973 74-year-old Hafnia Hotel burns, killing 35 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1968 Helena Christensen, Copenhagen Denmark, model/actress, Inferno

1968 Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer, Gippsland Ladies Amateur

1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners

1964 Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark

1954 Ib Anderson, Copenhagen, ballet dancer

1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die

1945 Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer

1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen

1944 Universal strike against nazi terror in Copenhagen

1940 Anna Karina, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Alphaville

1932 Nina Van Pallandt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, actress, American Gigolo

1928 Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer, Natl Ballet of Canada

1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist, Orquesta Sinfonica

1916 Osa Massen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Jack London, Rocketship XM

1909 Victor Borge, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, pianist/comedian

1893 Carl Brisson, Copenhagen Denmark, actor, Murder at the Vanities

1893 Kay Fisker, Danish architect, Hornbeck House, Copenhagen

1890 Lauritz Melchior, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, baritone tenor, Natl Symphony

1889 August Strindberg's "Hemsoborna," premieres in Copenhagen

1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen

1886 Karl Dane, Copenhagen Denmark, actor, Son of the Sheik

1886 Jean Hersholt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, actor, Men in White, Aryan

1884 Torben Myer, Copenhagen Denmark, actor, Girl Who Came Back

1883 Asta Nielsen, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Joyless Street

1879 Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen

1843 Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens

1812 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Romeo and Juliet

1795 Fire destroy 1/3 of Copenhagen; 18,000 injured

1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor, Dying Lion



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