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2010 in Lithuania
This article is about the particular significance of the year
2010
to
Lithuania
and
its people
.
Incumbents
President:
Dalia Grybauskaitė
Prime Minister:
Andrius Kubilius
Chairmanships
Community of Democracies
Events
May 28
– was held
Sidabrinė gervė 2010
.
August 8
– wind flaw killed 4 people.
August 27
–
Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
won
Miss Lithuania 2010
title.
October 7
– Lithuania and
European Space Agency
written cooperation agreement.
Sports
July 1–3
–
Alytus
held
2010 Lithuania Swimming Championships
July 9–10
– in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium was held
2010 Lithuanian Athletics Championships
.
July 22-August 1
– Lithuania held and won
U18 European Championship Men 2010 Division A
.
July 27-August 1
–
Živilė Balčiūnaitė
won
gold medal
for Lithuania at marathon event in
2010 European Athletics Championships
.
August 14–26
– Lithuania achieved 19th place in
2010 Summer Youth Olympics
with 5 medal
September 9–19
–
Nida
held
2010 Lithuanian Sailing Championships
.
September 12
–
Lithuanian national basketball team
won
bronze medal
at
2010 FIBA World Championship
.
November 25
–
Vytautas Janušaitis
won
silver medal
in
2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships
.
November
–
Vilnius
held
Lithuania Open darts championship
.
Lithuanian
Sportsman of the Year
2010:
Simona Krupeckaitė
Deaths
January 20
-
Abraham Sutzkever
, Yiddish poet.
January 25
–
Algirdas Petrulis
, painter.
January 26
-
Eugenijus Karpavičius
, illustrator.
April 8
-
Stanislovas Gediminas Ilgūnas
, politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
.
June 26
-
Algirdas Brazauskas
, the first
President
of a newly independent post-Soviet Union Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and
Prime Minister
from 2001 to 2006.
July 7
-
Vytautas Čekanauskas
, architect, professor of the
Vilnius Academy of Art
.