1951 in Colombia

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See also:	Other events of 1951 Timeline of Colombian history

Events of 1951 in Colombia .

Incumbents

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

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.

March

• 25 March – The Colombian government announced import controls on over 2000 items, including cars and other luxuries, to suppress black market trading. ^{[1] [2]}

May

• 9 May –The 1951 population census of the state of Antioquia is held. ^[3]
• 24 May – La Gran Colombia University founded.

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). ^[4]

September

• 16 September – 1951 Colombian parliamentary election.

October

• 25 October – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) disaffiliates Colombia. ^[5]
• 28 October – President Gomez is hospitalized after having a heart attack, which leaves him partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. ^{[6] [7]}

November

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

Uncertain

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

Births

January

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

February

Luis Eduardo Garzon (2015)

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

March

• 12 March – Diego Umaña, footballer.
• 17 March – Carmenza Duque, singer and actress. ^[8]

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.

Carlos Pizarro (1990)

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

Carlos Holmes Trujillo (2018)

• 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

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

Notes

1. Gómez would step down on 5 November 1951 due to health concerns, leaving Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez as acting president until the 1953 coup.
2. The Office of the Vice President was officially abolished by the 1905 National Constituent Assembly on 28 March 1905, and it was only reinstituted after the ratification of the new 1991 Constitution and filled in the following presidential elections in 1994.

References

1. "Colombia To Devalue, Curb Imports Today" , New York Times , 1951-03-26, ProQuest   111991482 , retrieved 2025-09-10
2. "Import Ban Unchanged; Colombia Sets New Exchange Rate of 2.50 Pesos to $1" , New York Times , 1951-04-16, ProQuest   111936964 , retrieved 2025-09-10
3. "Censo de poblacion de Colombia, 1951 (mayo 9)". International Labour Organization (ILO). 1955. Archived from the original on 23 September 2024. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
4. "Our History". Ecopetrol. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
5. Tiempo, Casa Editorial El. "Con Pedernera y Di Stéfano liderando: hace 71 años inició 'El Dorado'". futbolred.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-23.
6. "Recorder 19 June 1953 — Virginia Chronicle: Digital Newspaper Archive". Virginia Chronicle. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
7. Osher Sofer, Douglas (May 2003). El Pueblo and La Rosca: A Political Dialogue in Colombia, 1944-1958. The University of Texas at Austin. p. 84. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
8. "Murió la cantante colombiana Carmenza Duque, la voz de La potra zaina" [Colombian singer Carmenza Duque, voice of La potra zaina, has died], El Colombiano (in Spanish), 2025-05-22, retrieved 2025-06-07
9. "Julio Torres, 90 años de una promesa trunca" [Julio Torres, 90 years of a promise cut short], Radio Nacional de Colombia (in Spanish), 2019-03-25, retrieved 2025-07-21

External links

• Media related to 1951 in Colombia at Wikimedia Commons