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2009 In Finland
The following lists events that happened in 2009 in Finland. Incumbents * President – Tarja Halonen *Prime Minister – Matti Vanhanen *Speaker – Sauli Niinistö Events *31 December – the Sello mall shooting Deaths *1 January – Aarne Arvonen, supercentenarian, oldest living male person in Finland (b. 1897) *10 January – Pauli Salonen, Nordic combined skier (b. 1916). *23 February – August Kiuru, cross country skier (b. 1922) *15 May – Helvi Sipilä, diplomat, lawyer, politician and promoter of women's rights (b. 1915) *21 May – Christer Boucht, lawyer, adventure traveller and writer (b. 1911) *13 July – Uma Aaltonen, journalist and politician (b. 1940) *25 August – Mirja Lehtonen, cross country skier (b. 1942). References {{Year in Europe, 2009 2000s in Finland Finland Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Finland
The president of the Republic of Finland ( fi, Suomen tasavallan presidentti; sv, Republiken Finlands president) is the head of state of Finland. Under the Constitution of Finland, executive power is vested in the Finnish Government and the president, with the latter possessing only residual powers. The president is directly elected by universal suffrage for a term of six years. Since 1994, no president may be elected for more than two consecutive terms. The president must be a Natural-born-citizen clause, natural-born Finnish citizen. The presidential office was established in the Constitution of Finland#Historical background and reform, Constitution Act of 1919. The incumbent president is Sauli Niinistö. He was elected for the first time in 2012 Finnish presidential election, 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 Finnish presidential election, 2018. Finland has, for most of Independence of Finland, its independence, had a semi-presidential system in which the president had much a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Kiuru
August Kiuru (12 July 1922, Sakkola – 23 February 2009 ) was a who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won two silver medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the and the |
2009 By Country
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s In Finland
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Finland
The following lists events that happened in 2009 in Finland. Incumbents * President – Tarja Halonen *Prime Minister – Matti Vanhanen *Speaker – Sauli Niinistö Events *31 December – the Sello mall shooting Deaths *1 January – Aarne Arvonen, supercentenarian, oldest living male person in Finland (b. 1897) *10 January – Pauli Salonen, Nordic combined skier (b. 1916). *23 February – August Kiuru, cross country skier (b. 1922) *15 May – Helvi Sipilä, diplomat, lawyer, politician and promoter of women's rights (b. 1915) *21 May – Christer Boucht, lawyer, adventure traveller and writer (b. 1911) *13 July – Uma Aaltonen, journalist and politician (b. 1940) *25 August – Mirja Lehtonen, cross country skier (b. 1942). References {{Year in Europe, 2009 2000s in Finland Finland Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirja Lehtonen
Mirja Lehtonen (October 19, 1942, Uurainen, Central Finland – August 25, 2009) was a cross-country skier from Finland who competed during the early 1960s. She was born in Kyynämöinen. She won two medals at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck with a silver in the 5 km and a bronze in the 3 × 5 km relay. Lehtonen also won a bronze medal in the 3 × 5 km relay at the 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane Zakopane ( Podhale Goral: ''Zokopane'') is a town in the extreme south of Poland, in the southern part of the Podhale region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains. From 1975 to 1998, it was part of Nowy Sącz Voivodeship; since 1999, it has been par .... Cross-country skiing results All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS). Olympic Games * 2 medals – (1 silver, 1 bronze) World Championships * 1 medal – (1 bronze) References External links * * 1942 births 2009 deaths People from Uurainen Finnish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uma Aaltonen
Ulla-Maija "Uma" Aaltonen (28 August 1940, Vihti – 13 July 2009, Helsinki) was a Finnish people, Finnish author, journalist, and Green League politician. Early life and education Aaltonen was raised on a farm and learned to love animals at a very young age. She studied journalism, sociology and psychology at the University of Tampere. As a journalist, she was particularly interested in issues of cruelty towards children and animals. She later owned her own farm. Aaltonen spent many years advocating for a statue in Seinäjoki, Seinajoki celebrating war horses. The monument was unveiled in 1996. Aaltonen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993. Career Aaltonen worked as a journalist at Yle, YLE and contributed to ''Anna (Finnish magazine), Anna'' magazine. She wrote a number of books for young people about sex education and animal cruelty. In 1994 she served as manager for Elisabeth Rehn’s presidential campaign. Aaltonen served in the European Parliament betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christer Boucht
Christer Boucht, born 4 March 1911 in Vaasa, Finland, and died 21 May 2009, in the same city. He was a Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer. Christer Boucht served as a young reserve officer in both the Winter War and the Continuation War. In 1966 he was the first man from Finland to cross the Greenland ice on skis and by dog team. He has written several books on his polar expeditions in northern Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ... and the journey across Greenland. In some of his books, he has also described the experiences from Finlands wars during the second world war. Christer Boucht was for many years an active member in the ''Finnish Arctic Society'' and in 2002 he became honorary member of the Society. Finnish writers 1911 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helvi Sipilä
Helvi Linnea Aleksandra Sipilä (née Maukola; 5 May 1915 – 15 May 2009) was a Finnish diplomat, lawyer and politician. She was known as a promoter of women's rights, and was the first-ever female Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations. When Sipilä was appointed Assistant-Secretary-General in 1972, 97 per cent of United Nations senior management (D1 and above) was male. Sipilä also held a number of leadership positions in international civic organizations, including in the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, Zonta International and the International Council of Women. Sipilä began her career as a lawyer and opened her own legal office in 1943. As a UN Assistant Secretary-General, she was in charge of the Center for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs from 1972 to her retirement from the post in 1980. She organized the first World Conference on Women in 1975 and had a great influence on the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauli Salonen
Pauli Salonen (14 February 1916, Hollola – 10 January 2009) was a Finnish nordic combined skier who competed during the 1940s. He finished seventh in the individual event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel .... Cross-country skiing results Olympic Games World Championships External linksWinter Olympic nordic combined results: 1948-64 1916 births 2009 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarja Halonen
Tarja Kaarina Halonen (; born 24 December 1943) is a Finnish politician who served as the 11th president of Finland, and the first woman to hold the position, from 2000 to 2012. She first rose to prominence as a lawyer with the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK), and as the Prime Minister's parliamentary secretary (1974–1975) and a member of the City Council of Helsinki (1977–1996). Halonen was a Social Democratic Party member of parliament from 1979 until her election to the presidency in 2000. She also served as a minister at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health from 1987 to 1990, as Minister of Justice from 1990 to 1991, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 2000. Halonen was an extremely popular president, with her approval ratings reaching a peak of 88 percent in December 2003. She was re-elected in 2006, defeating National Coalition Party candidate Sauli Niinistö in the second round by 51% to 48%. Ineligible to run in the 2012 president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aarne Arvonen
This is a list of Finnish supercentenarians (people from Finland who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The oldest person ever from Finland was Maria Rothovius, who died in 2000, aged 112 years 259 days. All Finnish supercentenarians were born at a time when Finland was an autonomous state of the Russian Empire. Finnish supercentenarians Biographies Aarne Arvonen Aarne Armas Arvonen (4 August 1897 – 1 January 2009) was a Finnish supercentenarian who lived for 111 years and 150 days. He became the last known living Finn to have been born in the 1800s, a time when Finland was still an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Arvonen was born in Uusimaa, Helsinki, his mother died when the First World War broke out, and his father a left-wing journalist and agitator had remarried, he had lost an eye after an accident playing with a gun, he served for the Red Guard in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, and later became its last surviving veteran. During the war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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