1989 in Romania

none August 2022 December 2020 1989 This is a list of 1989 events that occurred in Romania. Incumbents President: Nicolae Ceaușescu (until 22 December),Grosescu, R. (2004). The Political Regrouping of Romanian Nomenklatura during the 1989 Revolution. Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, 4(1), 97-123. Ion Iliescu (starting 26 December)Ion Iliescu https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ion-Iliescu 5 April 2022 Encyclopædia Britannica Prime Minister: Constantin Dăscălescu (until 25 December),BBotY 1990 491 Petre Roman (starting 26 December)BBotY 1990 491 Events March Six retired senior figures in the Romanian Communist Party, including Gheorghe Apostol and Silviu Brucan, write an open letter to Nicolae Ceaușescu. They call for the relaxation of Ceaușescu's demand for increased exports, the release of more food for internal consumption, the investment in new technology for the industries, the halt of a vastly expensive program of prestige projects of doubtful economic value and for the dictator to put an end to systematization.BBotY 1990 491 April President Nicolae Ceaușescu announces that Romania had paid all of its external debt.BBotY 1990 4911989-04-23 Romania Pays Off Its Debts But Problems Linger https://apnews.com/article/aaf1d94fbd52c0b708928703625baa36 2023-01-14 Associated Press Vienna1989-04-24 Romania pays off huge debt but problems linger on 6 The Business Times Associated Press 18 April – The localities of Aninoasa (Hunedoara County), Fundulea (Călărași County), Lehliu Gară (Călărași County), Mioveni (Argeș County) and Valea lui Mihai (Bihor County) are declared cities. May The Italian football club AC Milan wins the 1989 European Cup final, beating Steaua București of Romania 4–0 in Barcelona. September 10 September - A Romanian cruiser carrying 179 people collides with a Bulgarian tugboat on the Danube, near Galați. Only 18 people are rescued from the cruiser.BBotY 1990 169 November 20–25 November - The 14th party congress takes place.BBotY 1990 492 23 November – During the XIV Congress of the RCP, first shift workers from Timișoara Mechanical Works try to organize a revolt against the communist regime. Their movement is quelled by the Securitate organs. 24 November – Nicolae Ceaușescu, the sole candidate for the communist party's leadership, is unanimously re-elected by the Central Committee1989-11-24 WORLD : Unopposed Ceausescu Reelected https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-11-24-mn-353-story.html 2023-01-14 Los Angeles Times as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.1989-11-25 Ceausescu re-elected 12 The Business Times Associated Press2022-11-14 Today in History: November 24, Ruby shoots Oswald https://apnews.com/article/ahmaud-arbery-today-in-history-us-supreme-court-charles-darwin-lee-harvey-oswald-64ab0ba70411852b6986e5c624fe10f4 2023-01-14 Associated PressBattiata Mary 1989-11-25 ISOLATED CEAUSESCU IS REELECTED https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1989/11/25/isolated-ceausescu-is-reelected/1e605d5b-c387-48f5-8c1b-cb4b7118b3e2/ 2023-01-14 The Washington Post Bucharest December Romanian Revolution thumb|200px|Bodies of protesters killed by Securitate officers in Cluj-Napoca 15 December - Demonstrators in Timișoara try preventing the arrest of Protestant clergyman László Tőkés.BBotY 1990 492 16 December – The Romanian Revolution begins in Timișoara when rioters break into the Committee Building and cause extensive vandalism. Their attempts to set the buildings on fire are foiled by military units.Bransten Jeremy 2008-04-09 Romania: Events In Timisoara Ignite 1989's Bloody Revolution https://www.rferl.org/a/1092892.html 2026-05-18 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty en 17 December - Nicolae Ceaușescu orders troops to fire on a crowd of protesters in Timișoara.BBotY 1990 107 19 December - Parts of Romania are reported to be under virtual martial law by Reuter.1989-12-20 Virtual martial law in Romania 24 The Business Times Reuter 20 December – A general strike breaks out in all the factories in Timișoara. Timișoara is declared the first city free of communism in Romania. 21 December A huge rally in Bucharest turns into chaos as firecrackers explode at the periphery of the gathering. Soldiers, tanks, APCs, Unitatea Specială de Luptă Antiteroristă USLA ro officers and Securitate officers dressed in civilian clothes crack on demonstrators, leaving casualties and significant material damage. Peaceful demonstrators in Arad, Brăila, Cluj-Napoca, Constanța, Hunedoara, Sibiu and Timișoara are shot dead by Securitate officers. thumb|right|upright=1.3|Ion Iliescu at the Romanian Television.|220px 22 December – Army units defect to the side of the demonstrators while the Ceaușescus flee and the Council of the National Salvation Front announces that it has overthrown the government.BBotY 1990 492 23 December - The Ceaușescu spouses are reported to have been captured.BBotY 1990 53 thumb|right|upright=1.3|National Salvation Front Council press release about the execution of the Ceaușescu spouses.|220px 25 December – Trial and execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu: The Ceaușescu spouses are summarily judged and executed outside the military garrison in Târgoviște.27 December 1989 Television shows last hours of the 'anti-Christ' The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/century/1980-1989/Story/0,6051,110504,00.htmlDemian Sînziana 25 December 2009 In Romania, Ceaușescu's death haunts Christmas Global Post Agence France-Presse Cluj-Napoca http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/091224/romania-nicolae-elena-ceausescu 27 December – Petre Roman is appointed Prime Minister of the Government of Romania. 28 December – For the first time, after a long break, is held a meeting of the Board of Writers' Union of Romania. Is elected a provisional steering committee, the president being Mircea Dinescu. 29 December - The Socialist Republic of Romania is renamed as Romania (ro România).BBotY 1990 701 thumb|right|upright=1.3|220px|page=2 31 December – The Decree-Law no. 8 of 31 December 1989 issued by NSFC reintroduces the political pluralism in Romania. Births Births in 1989 August 2022 14 January – Dima Trofim, singer and former member of Lala Band 28 January – Ruby, singer 29 January – Adriana Țăcălie, handball player 25 March – Andrei Leonte, singer and songwriter 12 April – Antonia Iacobescu, singer and model 18 May – Alexandru Chipciu, footballer (FC Steaua București) 27 May – Doru Bratu, footballer (FC Steaua București) 5 June – Roxana Cocoș, Olympic weightlifter 10 June – Alexandra Stan, singer 28 June – Bogdan Stancu, footballer (Gençlerbirliği S.K.) 15 September – Steliana Nistor, former artistic gymnasthttp://gymnastics.about.com/od/athletestowatch/p/StelianaNistor.htm "Bio of gymnast Steliana Nistor by Amy Van Deusen" 27 August 2022 6 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150906142826/http://gymnastics.about.com/od/athletestowatch/p/StelianaNistor.htm dead 3 November – Sore Mihalache, singer and former member of Lala Band 7 November – Jimmy Dub, singer 14 November Raluka, singer Vlad Chiricheș, footballer (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.) 22 November – Gabriel Torje, footballer (RCD Espanyol) Deaths Deaths in 1989 August 2022 January 5 January – Philip Herschkowitz, composer and musicologist (b. 1906) 6 January – Marcel Budală ro, accordionist (b. 1926) 10 January – Chris Avram, actor (b. 1931) 15 January – Surian Borali ro, footballer (b. 1960) 23 January – Nicolae Al. Rădulescu ro, geographer, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1905) March 2 March – Liviu Cornel Babeș, electrician and painter (b. 1942) 6 March – Vasile Netea ro, writer and historian (b. 1912) 22 March – Ștefan Niculescu (lieutenant colonel) Ștefan Niculescu ro Ștefan Niculescu, lieutenant colonel in World War II (b. 1908) 25 March Nina Behar ro fr, documentary filmmaker (b. 1930) Radu-Eugeniu Gheorghiu, composer and instrumentist (b. 1915) 29 March – Nicolae Steinhardt, Orthodox hermit and writer (b. 1912) April 2 April – Tudor Vornicu ro, journalist and television producer (b. 1926) 8 April – Horia Demian, basketball player (b. 1942) 19 April – Iosif Keber, painter (b. 1897) 20 April Constantin Celăreanu, aviator in World War II (b. 1890) Doru Davidovici, aviator and writer (b. 1945) 23 April – Ioniță G. Andron, photographic artist, Greek Catholic theologian and lawyer (b. 1917) May 2 or 3 May – Roland Kirsch ro de, writer (b. 1960) 5 May – Alexandru Țitruș ro, popular music violinist (b. 1922) 11 May – Naum Corcescu ro, sculptor (b. 1922) 29 May – Adrian Petringenaru ro, film director (b. 1933) June 2 June – Grigore Kiazim ro, lăutar instrumentist (b. 1931) 20 June – Traian Dorz ro, poet and political prisoner (b. 1914) 30 June Vasile Petre Jitariu ro, biologist, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1905) Petre Lupu ro Petre Lupu (politician), politician (b. 1920) July 6 July – Alexandru Pașcanu, composer (b. 1920) 7 July – Horia Stamatu, writer and journalist (b. 1912) 11 July – Horia Macellariu – counter admiral (b. 1894) 12 July – Irimie Staicu ro, agronomic engineer and agrotechnician, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1905) 25 July – Emil Gavri ro – popular music singer (b. 1915) August 30 August – Costin Murgescu, economist, jurist, journalist and diplomat (b. 1919) 31 August – Dinu Kivu ro, theatre and film critic (b. 1942) September 17 September – Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, philosopher and writer (b. 1919)https://www.bjc.ro/wiki/index.php/S%C3%AErbu%2C_Ion_Desideriu Sîrbu, Ion Desideriu ro Cluj County Library www.bjc.ro February 18, 2024 21 September – Nuni Anestin ro Ion Tudor (Nuni) Anestin, actor (b. 1941) 29 September – Alexandru Cosmescu ro, journalist, writer and anthologist (b. 1922) October 7 October – Mircea Șeptilici, actor (b. 1912) 15 October – Paul Georgescu, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923) November 1 November – Mihaela Runceanu, singer and vocal techniques teacher (b. 1955) 19 November – Zoltán Vadász ro, actor (b. 1926) 25 November – György Bözödi ro, writer, sociologist and historian (b. 1913) 28 November Arsenie Boca, Romanian Orthodox monk, theologian and artist (b. 1910) Ion Popescu-Gopo, graphic artist and animator (b. 1923) December thumb|100px|Nicolae Ceaușescu thumb|100px|Hermann Oberth 12 December – Ioan Zugrăvescu ro, chemist, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1910) 17 December Anton Breitenhofer, journalist, writer and politician (b. 1912) Gheorghe Vlădescu-Răcoasa, sociologist and politician (b. 1895) 18 December – Franz Liebhard ro, writer (b. 1899) 19 December – Alexandru Mitru ro, writer (b. 1914) 20 December – Ioan Moraru ro, medical doctor, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 1927) 22 December – Vasile Milea, politician and general officer (b. 1927)Flavius Cristian Marcau, "Revolution of 1989: Milea's Suicide", University of Târgu Jiu, Letter and Social Science Series, Issue 4, 2013, Retrieved February 27, 2016. 23 December Velicu Mihalea ro, general officer (birth date unknown) Constantin Nuță ro, general officer (b. 1919) 25 December Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania (b. 1918)Boyes Roger 24 December 2009 Ceausescu looked in my eyes and he knew that he was going to die The Times London http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6967099.ece https://web.archive.org/web/20110604155855/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6967099.ece dead 4 June 2011 subscription 20 May 2010 Elena Ceaușescu, Nicolae Ceaușescu's wife (b. 1916) Florică Murariu, rugby union player (b. 1955) 27 December – Horia Căciulescu ro, actor (b. 1922) 28 December Marin Ceaușescu, economist and diplomat (b. 1916) Hermann Oberth, inventor and pioneer of astronautics (b. 1894) Full date unknown Grigore Osipov-Sinești ro, stomatologist (b. 1907) Nicu Stoenescu ro, romance and tango singer (b. 1911) References Citations Bibliography Britannica Book of the Year 1990 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. 1990 0-85229-522-7 0068-1156 BBotY 1990 1989 Category:Years of the 20th century in Romania Category:1980s in Romania Romania Romania