1959 in Romania

none 1959 Events from the year 1959 in Romania. During the year, the country hosted the first International Mathematical Olympiad. Incumbents President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic: Ion Gheorghe Maurer.Bertold Spuler Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975 London Bowker 1977 978-0-85935-056-3 443 Prime Minister: Chivu Stoica.Vojtech Mastny Malcolm Byrne A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991 Budapest Central European University Press 2005 691 978-6-15505-369-6 General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.Spencer Tucker The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection Santa Barbara ABC-CLIO 2020 978-1-44086-076-8 669 Events 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".Ioana Diaconescu http://www.romlit.ro/sandu_tudor_si_gruparea_rugul_aprins Sandu Tudor și gruparea 'Rugul Aprins' Sandu Tudor and the group "Rugul Aprins" by Ioana Diaconescu România Literară 43 2006 ro dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064240/http://www.romlit.ro/sandu_tudor_si_gruparea_rugul_aprins 2016-03-04 29 May – Sociologists form a National Sociological Committee, which soon joins the International Sociological Association, to encourage the development of the discipline.Ștefan Bosomitu Notes and Remarks on the (Re) Institutionalization of Sociology in Communist Romania in the 1960s History of Communism in Europe 2 2011 183 10.7761/HCE.2.169 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272708472 9 May 2022 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.Philip Altbach International Higher Education Volume 2 770 Hoboken Taylor and Francis 2014 978-1-13662-885-6 23 July – Brașov and Bucharest jointly host the first International Mathematical Olympiad, which runs until 31 July.Dušan Djukić Vladimir Janković Ivan Matić The IMO Compendium New York Springer 2011 2 978-1-44199-854-5 28 July – The Ioanid Gang allegedly steal 1.6 million lei from a National Bank of Romania armored car.Vasile Lapadusi Costica Tanase Attack on the Car of the National Bank Atac Asupra Mașinii Băncii Naționale Romanian Journal of Forensic Science 13 81 2012 1019 28 October – The Grand National Assembly adopts Decree No 410 which abolishes many monasteries, including Radu Vodă Monastery.Nicodim Nicolăescu The Catastrophic Effects of Decree 410/1959 on Monasticism in Communist Romania Teologia 58 1 2014 18 http://www.revistateologia.ro/downloads/Teologia/1_2014/Nicodim.pdf Art and literature ro Îndrăzneala (The Daring), a novel by Marin Preda, is published.Mihai Ungheanu Marin Preda: vocație și aspirație Marin Preda: Vocation and Aspiration Timișoara Editura Amarcord 2002 407 978-9-73820-227-6 RO Cinema and theatre Eugène Ionesco writes the play Rhinoceros.Amin Asfari Civility, Nonviolent Resistance, and the New Struggle for Social Justice Leiden Brill Rodopi 2020 186 978-9-00441-758-8 Mingea (The Ball), directed by Andrei Blaier and Sinișa Ivetici, is released. It is shown at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.Alfred Krautz International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Yugoslavia (from the beginnings to 1980) Munich Saur 1983 120 978-3-59821-433-2 Births 26 January – Mircea Fulger, boxer, bronze medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fu/mircea-fulger-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150912011957/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fu/mircea-fulger-1.html dead 12 September 2015 Mircea Fulger 4 February – Monica Macovei, politician and Minister of Justice between 2004 and 2007.Marius Mureșan Destinația Cotroceni: alegerile prezidențiale în România 1990–2014 Destination Cotroceni: Presidential Elections in Romania 1990–2014 Iaşi Polirom 2000 394 978-6-06171-506-0 RO 20 March – Felicia Filip, operatic soprano.David M. Cummings International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory Cambridge International Biographical Centre 1998 169 978-0-94887-592-2 5 April – Florica Prevenda, artist.Florica Prevenda Contra Punct 10 1999 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=8lcoAQAAMAAJ 28 April – Lucia Romanov-Stark, tennis player. Lucia Romanov: "Am jucat finala în rochia lui Dominique" http://www.adevarul.ro/sport/antifotbal/tenis/Dominique-Lucia-Am-rochia-finala_0_112188821.html ro Adevărul 7 September 2009 11 August 2022 1 June – Cristian Popescu, poet (died 1995).Popescu, Cristian, 1959–1995 Library of Congress https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84235055.html id.loc.gov August 30, 2023 13 June – Klaus Iohannis, President of Romania from 2014.Nick Heath-Brown The Statesman's Yearbook 2016: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World London Palgrave Macmillan 2015 997 9781349578238 https://books.google.com/books?id=lDkUDgAAQBAJ 14 June – Alexandru Darie, theater director (died 2019). 17 September – Florentin Crihălmeanu, Romanian Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla (died 2021).January 12, 2021 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 https://actualdecluj.ro/episcopul-greco-catolic-de-cluj-gherla-florentin-crihalmeanu-a-murit-fusese-infectat-cu-covid-19/ August 27, 2022 actualdecluj.ro ro 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.Hilary Evans Arild Gjerde Jeroen Heijmans Bill Mallon etal http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/marin-gheorghe-1.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150908075300/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/marin-gheorghe-1.html dead 8 September 2015 Marin Gheorghe Sports Reference LLC Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Deaths 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).Emanuel Fântâneanu Inscripții pe columna gimnasticii românești Reflections on the Romanian gymnastics column 3 Bucharest Tracus Arte 2017 2621 978-6-06664-800-4 RO 11 February – Ioan Bălan, Bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church (born 1880).Wojciech Roszkowski Jan Kofman Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century New York Routledge 2015 1771 978-1-31747-593-4 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 1959 Category:Years of the 20th century in Romania Category:1950s in Romania Category:1959 in Romania Romania Romania