Events from the year 2009 in Sweden

2009
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Sweden

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  • 1 january - The new Swedish FRA law comes into effect.
  • 1 january - New authorities in Sweden will be the Discrimination Ombudsman and the Swedish Transport Agency.
  • 1 january - Höganäs municipality introduces, as the second municipality in Sweden, the euro as a parallel currency.
  • February 5 – In Sweden, the four party leaders of the agree on the Swedish energy policy, which means that the ban on new construction of nuclear power is lifted.
  • February 24 – In Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling announce that they are engaged and that the wedding will take place on June 19, 2010.
  • March 25 – Sverker Göranson takes office as the new Commander-in-Chief.
  • April 17 - In Sweden, the Stockholm district court's verdict against the four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial falls.
  • May 26 - Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki declares that there is no intention to release Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, who has been imprisoned in the country without trial since 2001.
  • June 16 – Sweden's Riksdag decides by a vote of 153-150 that Sweden shall abolish general conscription,[12] which has existed since 1901, in peacetime and from July 1, 2010, replace it with voluntary basic military training.'
  • June 17 – Member of Parliament Tobias Krantz is appointed as the new Swedish Minister of Higher Education and Research after the departed Lars Leijonborg.
  • July 1 - Sweden will be the country holding the presidency of the European Union for the next six months, after the Czech Republic.
  • July 23 – The two Gotland ferries M/S Gotland and HSC Gotlandia II collide just outside Nynäshamn, Sweden. 15 passengers are slightly injured.
  • July 31 - Six crewmen die when the cargo ship Langeland sinks in Kosterfjorden, Sweden.
  • September 12 – The first vaccination against the new flu in Sweden is carried out at a test group in Eskilstuna.
  • September 23 - A very spectacular robbery against a safe deposit in Västberga owned by the security company G4S, is carried out with, among other things, a stolen helicopter. See more on the Helicopter robbery.
  • October 5 - The UN names Norway as the best country in the world to live in. Sweden is seventh on the list, which means a drop from 2008.
  • November 1 - AIK wins the Allsvenskan for men and thus becomes Swedish football champions for the first time in eleven years.

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Deaths

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Ingemar Johansson, heavyweight boxing world champion.

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References

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  1. ^ GuidePal's guides,"[1] Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine"
  2. ^ "Viking Palm". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Torsten Lindberg". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ^ Blyth, Alan (21 November 2009). "Elisabeth Söderström obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 July 2019.