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2012 In Lithuania
Events in the year 2012 in Lithuania. Incumbents *President: Dalia Grybauskaitė *Prime Minister: Andrius Kubilius (until 13 December), Algirdas Butkevičius (starting 13 December) Events January *January 10 - Anykščiai took the title of a cultural capital of Lithuania. October *October 14 – Election to the Seimas and the referendum on the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the Republic of Lithuania. *October 28 – The second poll of the Election to the Seimas. *October 29 – switching to digital television Art and entertainment *Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Sports * 2011–12 Lithuanian Football Cup. * 2012 European Track Championships Deaths *19 February – Stasys Stonkus, basketball player (born 1931). * 3 November – Eugenija Pleškytė, actress (born 1938) * 21 November – Algirdas Šocikas, boxer (born 1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011–12 Lithuanian Football Cup
The 2011–12 Lithuanian Football Cup was the 23rd season of the Lithuanian annual football knock-out tournament. The competition started on 5 June 2011 with the matches of the first round and ended on 20 May 2012. Ekranas were the defending champions. The winners will qualify for the second qualifying round Bert Kassies' Site of the . First round The matches were played around 5 June 2011.Second round The matches were played around 3 July 2011.Third round The matches were played between 23 August and 9 September 2011. ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov Events * October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented. May * 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins. Births * 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach * 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania * 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist * 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988) * 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021) * 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor * 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012) * 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Algirdas Šocikas
Algirdas Šocikas (14 May 1928 – 21 November 2012) was a Lithuanian amateur heavyweight boxer who won the European title in 1953 and 1955 and finished fifth at the 1952 Olympics. He won six Soviet (1950–1954, 1956), six Lithuanian (1947–1948, 1951–1953, 1956) and three Baltic championships (1948, 1950, 1952). After retiring in 1957 he worked as a boxing coach in Kaunas and raised the Olympic medalists Ričardas Tamulis and Jonas Čepulis, among others. He died in Kaunas, aged 84, and was buried in Petrašiūnai Cemetery Petrašiūnai Cemetery ( lt, Petrašiūnų kapinės) is Lithuania's premiere last resting place formally designated for graves of people influential in national history, politics, arts, and science. Location Petrašiūnai Cemetery is located abo .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1938 in the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov Events * March – Trial of the Twenty-One * 15 March – The Soviet Union announces officially that Nikolai Bukharin has been executed. * 29 July–11 August – Battle of Lake Khasan * 2 September – Soviet Ambassador to Britain Ivan Maisky calls on Winston Churchill, telling him that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov has expressed to the French chargé d'affaires in Moscow that the Soviet Union is willing to fight over the territorial integrity of Czechoslovakia. *''unknown date'' – Family plots produce 22% of all Soviet Union, Soviet agricultural produce, on only 4% of all cultivated land. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenija Pleškytė
Eugenija Pleškytė (6 January 1938 – 3 November 2012) was a Lithuanian actress. In 2009, she was awarded the Special Golden Crane in Sidabrinė gervė awards by the Lithuanian Film Academy for her contributions to Lithuanian cinema. References External links * 1938 births 2012 deaths Lithuanian film actresses Lithuanian stage actresses Disease-related deaths in Lithuania {{Lithuania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * List of heads of state of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov Events March *1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held. April *27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake Births *1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001) *17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer (died 2013) *21 January – Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician *22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete *1 February – Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007) *2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, last List of leaders of the Soviet Union, leader of the Soviet Union (died 2022) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasys Stonkus
Stanislovas "Stasys" Stonkus (29 December 1931 – 19 February 2012) was a Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Telšiai. In 1954, he graduated from the Lithuanian National Physical Education Institute.Unofficial gateway to Lithuania He trained at VSS Žalgiris in Kaunas. He was a member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 European Track Championships
The 2012 European Track Championships was the third edition of the elite European Track Championships in track cycling. It was held on October 19–21, 2012 and took place at the Cido Arena in Panevėžys, Lithuania. It was the first European Elite Track Championships that had opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was held on 19 October, an hour before the start of the evening session. Held some time after the 2012 Summer Olympics, a number of elite European cyclists, notably from Great Britain and France were not in attendance, either through retirement or a rest period. In their absence, the medal table was headed by Germany and the east European track powers; Russia, Belarus and hosts Lithuania. Schedule The competition days were split into two Sessions. Events * shaded events are non-Olympic Medal table Participating nations 146 riders from 21 nations will participate. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *, ''see: Netherlands at the 2012 European Track Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania In The Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Lithuanian entry was selected through a national selection, organised by the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT. Donny Montell represented Lithuania with the song "Love Is Blind", which qualified from the second semi-final and went on to place 14th in the final, scoring 70 points. Before Eurovision Participation On 11 September 2011, LRT confirmed Lithuania's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, although the broadcaster struggled with financial problems. Additionally, the Lithuanian head of Delegation, Audrius Girzadas, has not excluded the possibility of selecting next year's national representative in Eurovision internally, given the financial difficulties LRT is going through. Eurovizija atranka Lietuvoje ''Eurovizija atranka Lietuvoje'' (Eurovision selection in Lithuania) was the national final format developed by LRT in order to select Lithuania's entry for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rulers Of Lithuania
The article is a list of heads of state of Lithuania over historical Lithuanian state. The timeline includes all heads of state of Lithuania as a sovereign entity, legitimately part of a greater sovereign entity, a client state, or a constituent republic subject to an outside authority. Currently, the head of state is the President of Lithuania. Kingdom of Lithuania (1251–1263) Title: King of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos karalius). Dates are approximate because of scant written sources. House of Mindaugas (1253–1263) , King 1236–1253 ''(as Grand Duke)'' 1253–1263 ''(as King)'', , , , Son of mythological Ringaudas , , NN, sister of Morta 2 children Morta 2 children , , 1263 Aglona Assassinated by Treniota and Daumantas Aged about 60 , - Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1263–1569) Title: Grand Duke ( lt, didysis kunigaikštis; be, vialiki kniaź; pl, wielki książę). Dates are approximate because of scant written sources. House of Mindaugas (1263–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
