Events from the year 1959 in Romania. During the year, the country hosted the first International Mathematical Olympiad.
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Incumbents
editEvents
edit- 31 January – Sandu Tudor begins a 40-year sentence at Jilava Prison for "conspiracy against the social order" and "intense activity against the working class".[4]
- 29 May – Sociologists form a National Sociological Committee, which soon joins the International Sociological Association, to encourage the development of the discipline.[5]
- July – Babeș-Bolyai University is formed in Cluj by the merger of Babeș and Bolyai Universities, which had as their languages of instruction Romanian and Hungarian respectively.[6]
- 23 July – Brașov and Bucharest jointly host the first International Mathematical Olympiad, which runs until 31 July.[7]
- 28 July – The Ioanid Gang allegedly steal 1.6 million lei from a National Bank of Romania armored car.[8]
- 28 October – The Grand National Assembly adopts Decree No 410 which abolishes many monasteries, including Radu Vodă Monastery.[9]
Art and literature
edit- Îndrăzneala (The Daring), a novel by Marin Preda, is published.[10]
Cinema and theatre
edit- Eugène Ionesco writes the play Rhinoceros.[11]
- Mingea (The Ball), directed by Andrei Blaier and Sinișa Ivetici, is released. It is shown at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.[12]
Births
edit- 26 January – Mircea Fulger, boxer, bronze medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[13]
- 4 February – Monica Macovei, politician and Minister of Justice between 2004 and 2007.[14]
- 20 March – Felicia Filip, operatic soprano.[15]
- 5 April – Florica Prevenda, artist.[16]
- 28 April – Lucia Romanov-Stark, tennis player.[17]
- 1 June – Cristian Popescu, poet (died 1995).[18]
- 13 June – Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania from 2014.[19]
- 14 June – Alexandru Darie, theater director (died 2019).
- 17 September – Florentin Crihălmeanu, Romanian Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla (died 2021).[20]
- 21 September – Crin Antonescu, politician, served as Acting President of Romania and President of the Senate.
- 6 November – Marin Gheorghe, rower, silver medal winner at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[21]
Deaths
edit- 30 January – Elena Săcălici, gymnast, member of the team that won the first Olympic and world team bronze medal for Romania, at the 1956 Summer Olympics (born 1935).[22]
- 11 February – Ioan Bălan, Bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church (born 1880).[23]
- 13 May – Emil Hațieganu, politician and jurist (born 1878).
- 24 July – Mihail Lascăr, general during World War II and Minister of Defense from 1946 to 1947 (born 1889).
- 24 November – Ion Gigurtu, far-right politician, officer, engineer, and industrialist who served as Prime Minister from 4 July to 4 September 1940, died at Râmnicu Sărat Prison (born 1886).
- 29 December – Gheorghe N. Leon, economist and politician, died at Râmnicu Sărat Prison (born 1888).
References
edit- ^ Spuler, Bertold (1977). Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975. London: Bowker. p. 443. ISBN 978-0-85935-056-3.
- ^ Mastny, Vojtech; Byrne, Malcolm (2005). A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991. Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 691. ISBN 978-6-15505-369-6.
- ^ Tucker, Spencer (2020). The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 669. ISBN 978-1-44086-076-8.
- ^ Diaconescu, Ioana (2006). "Sandu Tudor și gruparea 'Rugul Aprins'" [Sandu Tudor and the group "Rugul Aprins" by Ioana Diaconescu]. România Literară (in Romanian) (43). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
- ^ Bosomitu, Ștefan (2011). "Notes and Remarks on the (Re) Institutionalization of Sociology in Communist Romania in the 1960s". History of Communism in Europe. 2: 183. doi:10.7761/HCE.2.169. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
- ^ Altbach, Philip (2014). International Higher Education Volume 2. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis. p. 770. ISBN 978-1-13662-885-6.
- ^ Djukić, Dušan; Janković, Vladimir; Matić, Ivan (2011). The IMO Compendium. New York: Springer. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-44199-854-5.
- ^ Lapadusi, Vasile; Tanase, Costica (2012). "Atac Asupra Mașinii Băncii Naționale" [Attack on the Car of the National Bank]. Romanian Journal of Forensic Science. 13 (81): 1019.
- ^ Nicolăescu, Nicodim (2014). "The Catastrophic Effects of Decree 410/1959 on Monasticism in Communist Romania" (PDF). Teologia. 58 (1): 18.
- ^ Ungheanu, Mihai (2002). Marin Preda: vocație și aspirație [Marin Preda: Vocation and Aspiration] (in Romanian). Timișoara: Editura Amarcord. p. 407. ISBN 978-9-73820-227-6.
- ^ Asfari, Amin (2020). Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice. Leiden: Brill Rodopi. p. 186. ISBN 978-9-00441-758-8.
- ^ Krautz, Alfred (1983). International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia (from the beginnings to 1980). Munich: Saur. p. 120. ISBN 978-3-59821-433-2.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mircea Fulger". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 12 September 2015.
- ^ Mureșan, Marius (2000). Destinația Cotroceni: alegerile prezidențiale în România 1990–2014 [Destination Cotroceni: Presidential Elections in Romania 1990–2014] (in Romanian). Iaşi: Polirom. p. 394. ISBN 978-6-06171-506-0.
- ^ Cummings, David M. (1998). International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory. Cambridge: International Biographical Centre. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-94887-592-2.
- ^ "Florica Prevenda". Contra Punct. 10: 5. 1999.
- ^ "Lucia Romanov: "Am jucat finala în rochia lui Dominique"". Adevărul (in Romanian). 7 September 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "Popescu, Cristian, 1959–1995". id.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
- ^ Heath-Brown, Nick (2015). The Statesman's Yearbook 2016: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 997. ISBN 9781349578238.
- ^ "Episcopul greco-catolic de Cluj-Gherla, Florentin Crihălmeanu, a murit. Fusese infectat cu Covid 19" [The Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla, Florentin Crihălmeanu, has died. He was infected with COVID-19]. actualdecluj.ro (in Romanian). January 12, 2021. Retrieved August 27, 2022.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marin Gheorghe". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015.
- ^ Fântâneanu, Emanuel (2017). Inscripții pe columna gimnasticii românești [Reflections on the Romanian gymnastics column] (in Romanian) (3 ed.). Bucharest: Tracus Arte. p. 2621. ISBN 978-6-06664-800-4.
- ^ Roszkowski, Wojciech; Kofman, Jan (2015). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge. p. 1771. ISBN 978-1-31747-593-4.