- Source: 1951 in Colombia
Incumbents
President:
Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro (1950–1953).
Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (1951–1953).
Vice President: N/A.
Events
= Ongoing
=La Violencia.
= January
=8 January – The club Deportes Quindío founded in Armenia.
5–17 January – The very first Vuelta a Colombia is held, beginning in Bogotá on the 5th.On the 17th, Efraín Forero Triviño of Cundinamarca wins.
= May
=9 May –The 1951 population census of the state of Antioquia is held.
24 May – La Gran Colombia University.
= June
=15 June – Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.
= August
=25 August – Ecopetrol is founded as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. (English:Colombian Petroleum Company).
= September
=16 September – 1951 Colombian parliamentary election.
= October
=25 October – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) disaffiliates Colombia.
28 October – President Gomez is hospitalized after having a heart attack, which leaves him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.
= November
=5 November – Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez becomes acting President of Colombia.
= Uncertain
=The 1951 Campeonato Profesional is won by the Millonarios.
Births
= January
=6 January – Gustavo Zalamea, artist (d. 2011).
= February
=6 February – Darío Gómez, musician (d. 2022).
11 February – Luis Eduardo Garzón, politician.
= March
=12 March – Diego Umaña, footballer.
17 March – Carmenza Duque, musician and actress.
= April
=22 April – José Fernando Castro, lawyer and politician (d. 2008).
= May
=8 May – Ricardo Tobón Restrepo, archbishop of Medellín.
21 May – William Vinasco Chamorro, sports journalist.
= June
=6 June – Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, politician and guerilla (d. 1990).
= August
=1 August – Constanza Duque, actress.
10 August – Juan Manuel Santos, politician and 32nd President of Colombia.
23 August – Cholo Valderrama, joropo musician and songwriter.
24 August – Hélmer Herrera, drug trafficker (d. 1998).
30 August – Wilson Saoko, musician.
= September
=18 September – Poncho Zuleta, vallenato musician.
23 September – Carlos Holmes Trujillo, politician, lawyer, and former Minister of National Defense (d. 2021).
29 September – Andrés Caicedo, writer (d. 1977).
= October
=15 October – Miguel Alfonso Murillo, actor (d. 2017).
28 October – Rodrigo Obregón, actor (d. 2019).
= November
=23 November – Margarita Londoño Vélez, writer (d. 2021).
= December
=31 December – Fernando Jaramillo Paredes, orchestra director and musician (d. 2014).
Deaths
8 October José – Joaquín Casas Castañeda, politician and former Minister of National Education (b. 1866).
unknown date – Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, doctor and writer (b. 1897)
Notes
References
External links
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