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1958 in Romania

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{{Year in Romania|1958}}

Events from the year 1958 in Romania. The year saw the end of the Soviet occupation of Romania with the last Soviet troops leaving the country.

Incumbents

  • President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic:{{cite book | first=Bertold | last=Spuler | title=Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975 | location=London | publisher=Bowker | year=1977 | isbn=978-0-85935-056-3 | page=443}}
  • Petru Groza (until 7 January).
  • Ion Gheorghe Maurer (from 11 January).
  • Prime Minister: Chivu Stoica.{{cite book | first1=Vojtech | last1=Mastny | first2=Malcolm | last2=Byrne | title=A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991 | location=Budapest | publisher=Central European University Press | year=2005 | page=691 | isbn=978-6-15505-369-6}}
  • General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.{{cite book | first=Spencer | last=Tucker | title=The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection | location=Santa Barbara | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-44086-076-8 | page=669}}

Events

  • 20 February – A Hungarian delegation, including János Kádár, visits Romania. They make explicit that Hungary has no territorial claims over Hungarian-speaking part of the country.{{cite journal | first1=Tadeusz | last1=Kopyś | first2=Tadeusz | last2=Stanek. | title=The History of Hungarian Autonomy in Transylvania 1952-1968 | journal=Politeja | volume=10 | number=1 | year=2008 | page=178 | jstor=24919299 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24919299 | access-date=6 May 2022}}
  • 27 May – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declares that Soviet troops will withdraw from Romania.{{cite book | first= Sergiu | last=Verona | title=Military Occupation and Diplomacy: Soviet Troops in Romania, 1944–1958 | location=Durham | publisher=Duke University Press | year=1992 | page=194 | isbn=978-0-82231-171-3}}
  • 6 June – The start of a three-day trial of four students who organised a conference to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the crowning of Stephen the Great. They are found guilty and imprisoned until 1964.{{cite journal | first=Johanna | last=Granville | title="If Hope Is Sin, Then We Are All Guilty": Romanian Students' Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution and Soviet Intervention, 1956–1958 | journal=The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East European Studies | number=1905 | date=April 2008 | page=27 | url= http://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/download/142/143 | access-date=6 May 2022}}
  • 21 July – In response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Great National Assembly passes Decree 318, stating that contacting foreigners to declare Romania neutral carries the death penalty.{{cite book | first=Dennis | last=Deletan | title=Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965 | location=New York | publisher=St. Martin's Press | year=1998 | page=276 | isbn=978-0-31221-904-8}}
  • 25 July – The last Soviet troops leave Romania, ending the Soviet occupation.{{cite journal | first=Eugene | last=Boia | title=The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Romania, 1955-1958 | journal=Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History | year=2018 | page=20 | url=https://www.ohioacademyofhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Boia.pdf}}
  • 14 November – Romania establishes its first diplomatic relations at the embassy level with a sub-Saharan country, Guinea.{{cite book | first1=Constantin C. | last1=Giurescu | first2=Horia C. | last2=Matei | first3=Marcel | last3=Popa | first4=Ion | last4=Alexandrescu | first5=Ioan | last5=Chiper | title=Chronological History of Romania | location=Bucharest | publisher=Editura Enciclopedică Română | year=1974 | page=477 | oclc=251025169 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XrVBAAAAYAAJ}}
  • Unknown – The last Csángós school is closed as part of the Romanianization of Western Moldavia.{{cite book | first=Michael | last=Mandelbaum | title=The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe | location=New York | publisher=Council on Foreign Relations | year=1999 | page=48 | isbn=978-0-87609-257-6}}

Art and literature

Births

  • 10 February – Olga Homeghi, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference | url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/olga-homeghi-bularda-1.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007161935/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/olga-homeghi-bularda-1.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=7 October 2015 | title=Olga Homeghi-Bularda}}
  • 9 March – Cornelia Catangă, lăutari musician (died 2021).{{cite web | first=Laura | last=Buclu | title=Cornelia Catanga, cântăreaţa de muzică lăutărească, a murit din cauza COVID-19 | trans-title=Cornelia Catanga, singer of lăutari music, dies due to COVID-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220213210256/https://www.mediafax.ro/social/cornelia-catanga-cantareata-de-muzica-lautareasca-a-murit-din-cauza-covid-19-19983214 | archive-date=13 February 2022 | url=https://www.mediafax.ro/social/cornelia-catanga-cantareata-de-muzica-lautareasca-a-murit-din-cauza-covid-19-19983214 | language=RO}}
  • 25 June – Gigi Becali, businessman and politician.In Romanian:https://adevarul.ro/locale/timisoara/cum-ajuns-familia-gigi-becali-albania-romania-s-au-mutat-casele-svabilor-deportati-urss-1_5c62cf3e445219c57e0dc816/index.html
  • 29 June – Oana Lungescu, journalist and NATO principal spokesperson.{{cite web | title=La mulți ani, Oana Lungescu! | trans-title=Happy birthday, Oana Lungescu! | url=http://www.revistavip.net/Sarbatoritul_saptamanii/La_multi_ani_Oana_Lungescu! | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506170653/http://www.revistavip.net/Sarbatoritul_saptamanii/La_multi_ani_Oana_Lungescu%21 | website=VIP | archive-date=6 May 2022 | language=RO}}
  • 4 July – Elena Horvat, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.{{cite web | first1=Hilary | last1=Evans | first2=Arild | last2=Gjerde | first3=Jeroen | last3=Heijmans | first4=Bill | last4=Mallon | display-authors = etal | url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/elena-oprea-horvat-1.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925160226/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/elena-oprea-horvat-1.html |url-status=dead | archive-date=25 September 2015 | title=Elena Oprea-Horvat | publisher=Sports Reference LLC |work=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com}}
  • 23 August – Iosif Matula, politician and member of the European Parliament.{{cite web | title=Iosif Matula | url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/95017/IOSIF_MATULA/history/7 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190522091645/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/95017/IOSIF_MATULA/history/7 | archive-date=22 May 2019 | publisher=European Parliament}}
  • 6 November – Elena Bondar, rower, bronze medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics.{{cite web | first1=Hilary | last1=Evans | first2=Arild | last2=Gjerde | first3=Jeroen | last3=Heijmans | first4=Bill | last4=Mallon | display-authors = etal | url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/elena-bondar-1.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002120720/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/elena-bondar-1.html |url-status=dead | archive-date=2 October 2015 | title=Elena Bondar | publisher=Sports Reference LLC |work=Olympics at Sports-Reference.com}}

Deaths

  • 7 January – Petru Groza, President since 1952 and Prime Minister between 1945 and 1952 (born 1884).{{cite book | first=Spencer | last=Tucker | title=The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection | location=Santa Barbara | publisher=ABC-CLIO | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-44086-076-8 | page=669}}
  • 17 February – Natalie Bierle, film actress who used the pseudonym Tala Birell (born 1907).{{cite book | first=Eugene Michael | last=Vazzana | title=Silent Film Necrology | location=London | publisher=McFarland | year=2002 | page=47 | isbn=978-0-78641-059-0}}
  • 26 May – Constantin Cantacuzino, aviator, the leading Romanian fighter ace in World War II (born 1905).{{cite book | first=Cornel-Constantin | last=Ilie | title=Între Bellu și Montparnasse: Români celebri în fața morții | trans-title=Between Bellu and Montparnasse: Famous Romanians in the Face of Death | location=Bucharest | publisher=Historia | year=2008 | page=31 | isbn=978-9-73178-119-8 | language=RO}}
  • 24 August –Veronica Antal, professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, the first Romanian woman to be beatified, on 22 September 2018 (born 1935).{{cite web | first=Simona | last=Stanciu | title=Ceremonie grandioasă pentru Veronica Antal, prima femeie din România pe care Biserica Catolică o va beatifica | trans-title=Grandiose ceremony for Veronica Antal, the first woman in Romania to be beatified by the Catholic Church | newspaper=Adevărul | url=https://adevarul.ro/locale/piatra-neamt/ceremonie-grandioasa-veronica-antal-femeie-romania-biserica-catolica-beatifica-1_5ba36a6bdf52022f75a48ff2/index.html | date=20 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921131412/https://adevarul.ro/locale/piatra-neamt/ceremonie-grandioasa-veronica-antal-femeie-romania-biserica-catolica-beatifica-1_5ba36a6bdf52022f75a48ff2/index.html | archive-date=21 September 2018 | language=RO}}
  • 2 September – Iosif Capotă, physician who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters, executed at Gherla Prison (born 1912).{{cite web|url=https://romanialibera.ro/aldine/history/doctorul-iosif-capota--eroul-margaului--articol-integral--253980|title=Doctorul Iosif Capotă, eroul Mărgăului |newspaper=România Liberă|first=Claudiu|last=Pădurean|date=February 16, 2012|access-date=August 16, 2022|language=Romanian}}
  • 7 December – Constantin Brăiloiu, composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1893).{{cite journal | first=Ion | last=Taloș | title=Despre globalizarea etnomuzicologiei: Constantin Brăiloiu și Sanda Golopenția | trans-title=The globalization of ethnomusicology: Constantin Brăiloiu and Sanda Golopenția | journal=Steaua | volume=70 | number=4 | year=2019 | page=51 | language=RO}}

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