1951 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 1951 Timeline of Colombian history

Events of 1951 in Colombia.

• President:
  • Laureano Gómez (1950–1953).
  • Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez (1951–1953).^{[n 1]}
• Vice President: N/A.^{[n 2]}

• La Violencia.

• 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.

• 9 May –The 1951 population census of the state of Antioquia is held.^[1]
• 24 May – La Gran Colombia University.

• 15 June – Colombian Battalion is deployed to Busan.

• 25 August – Ecopetrol is founded as Empresa Colombiana de Petróleos S.A. (English:Colombian Petroleum Company).^[2]

• 16 September – 1951 Colombian parliamentary election.

• 25 October – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) disaffiliates Colombia.^[3]
• 28 October – President Gomez is hospitalized after having a heart attack, which leaves him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life.^[4][5]

• 5 November – Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez becomes acting President of Colombia.

• The 1951 Campeonato Profesional is won by the Millonarios F.C..

• 6 January – Gustavo Zalamea, artist (d. 2011).

• 6 February – Darío Gómez, musician (d. 2022).
• 11 February – Luis Eduardo Garzón, politician.

• 12 March – Diego Umaña, footballer.
• 17 March – Carmenza Duque, singer and actress.^[6]

• 22 April – José Fernando Castro, lawyer and politician (d. 2008).

• 8 May – Ricardo Tobón Restrepo, archbishop of Medellín.
• 21 May – William Vinasco Chamorro, sports journalist.

• 6 June – Carlos Pizarro Leongómez, politician and guerilla (d. 1990).

• 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.

• 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).

• 15 October – Miguel Alfonso Murillo, actor (d. 2017).
• 28 October – Rodrigo Obregón, actor (d. 2019).

• 23 November – Margarita Londoño Vélez, writer (d. 2021).

• 31 December – Fernando Jaramillo Paredes, orchestra director and musician (d. 2014).

• 9 January – Julio Torres Mayorga, musician and songwriter (b. 1929)^[7]
• 8 October – Joaquín Casas Castañeda, politician and former Minister of National Education (b. 1866).
• unknown date – Cesar Uribe Piedrahita, doctor and writer (b. 1897)

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