1956 in Romania explained

Events from the year 1956 in Romania. At the University of Bucharest, students demonstrated in support of the Hungarian Revolution. The year also saw the end of the last SovRom joint enterprises and the first broadcast from TVR, Romania's first TV network.

Incumbents

• President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic

Petru Groza.^[1]

• Prime Minister

Chivu Stoica.^[2]

• General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.^[3]

Events

• 10 February – Romania signs a reciprocal arrangement with Yugoslavia regarding air routes.^[4]
• 26 June – Following a three day visit from Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito, a joint communique is signed between Romania and Yugoslavia promoting nuclear disarmament and free trade.^[5]
• 8 July – The Romania women's national handball team are declared World Champions in Frankfurt.^[6]
• 22 October – The last SovRom joint enterprises with the Soviet Union, Sovromcuarț and Sovrompetrol, are dissolved.^[7]
• 5 November – Students at the University of Bucharest protest in support of the Hungarian Revolution. The movement is repressed.^[8]
• 22 November – Imre Nagy arrives in Bucharest after being arrested, ending the Hungarian Revolution.^[9]
• 31 November – The first TV network in the country, Televiziunea Română, (TVR) makes its first broadcast.^[10]

Births

• 10 February – Mariana Marin, poet (died 2003).^[11]
• 24 February – Sanda Toma, rower, gold medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[12]
• 28 February – Paul Pîrșan, agronomist.
• 10 April – Ioan Sauca, priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church, academic, and acting general secretary of the World Council of Churches.^[13]
• 19 April – Sofia Corban-Banovici, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.^[14]
• 12 May – Ilan Gilon, Israeli politician (died 2022)
• 1 June – Mircea Cărtărescu, poet, writer and literary critic.^[15]
• 19 August – Titu Andreescu, mathematician.
• 27 October – Valentin Radu, artistic director and conductor.^[16]
• 27 December – Doina Melinte, athlete, winner of the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics (died 2008).^[17]

Deaths

• 12 March – Emil Calmanovici, engineer, businessman, and communist militant, died in Aiud Prison (born 1896).
• 22 April – Otto Roth, Commissioner-in-Chief of the Banat Republic (born 1884).^[18]
• 5 May – Miklós Nyiszli, Hungarian survivor of the Holocaust (born 1901).^[19]
• 22 May – Ion Călugăru, writer, playwright and journalist (born 1901).^[20]
• 17 June – Artur Văitoianu, general in World War I who served as a Prime Minister of Romania in 1919 (born 1864).
• 6 September – Abraham Leib Zissu, political essayist and writer (born 1888).^[21]
• 22 December – Nicolae Labiș, poet (born 1935).^[22]

Notes and References

1. Book: Spuler, Bertold . Rulers and Governments of the World Volume 3: 1930 to 1975 . London . Bowker . 1977 . 978-0-85935-056-3 . 443.
2. Book: 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.
3. Book: Tucker, Spencer . The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection . Santa Barbara . ABC-CLIO . 2020 . 978-1-44086-076-8 . 669.
4. Robert R. . Campbell . Soviet-Bloc Civil Aviation in the Cold War . Air University Quarterly Review . X . 4 . 1958 . 50 .
5. Joint Declaration of the Governments of the Rumanian People's Republic and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . Agrepres . 17 . 5 July 1957 . 2 .
6. Book: Constantin C. . Giurescu . Horia C. . Matei . Marcel . Popa . Ion . Alexandrescu . Ioan . Chiper . Chronological History of Romania . Bucharest . Enciclopedică Română . 1974 . 383 . 251025169 .
7. Book: Csaba . Békés . László . Borhi . Peter . Ruggenthaler . Ottmar . Trașcă . Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45–1948/49 . New York . Central European University Press . 2015 . 139 . 978-9-63386-075-5.
8. Book: M. János . Rainer . Katalin . Somlai . The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Soviet Bloc Countries: Reactions and Repercussions . Budapest . The Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution . 2007 . 10 . 978-9-63973-904-8.
9. Book: Rainer, János M. . Legters . Lyman H. . Imre Nagy: A Biography . London . I.B. Tauris . 2002 . 978-1-84511-959-1.
10. The Bucharest TV Station . Agrepres . 2 . 25 January 1957 . 11.
11. Book: Adam J. . Sorkin . Kurt W. . Treptow . An Anthology of Romanian Women Poets . Iasi . Center for Romanian Studies . 1995 . 125 . 978-9-73915-575-5.
12. Agafia Orlov-Buhaev-Constantin . https://web.archive.org/web/20151122045641/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/sanda-toma-2.html . dead . 22 November 2015 . 5 May 2022.
13. Web site: Pr. Ioan Sauca – Preot și profesor. 2018. September 15, 2022. Colocviul Întâlnirea cu Duhovnicul. intalnireacuduhovnicul.ro. ro.
14. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Sofia Corban-Banovici. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924235314/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/sofia-corban-banovici-1.html . dead . 24 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
15. Book: Palmisano, Joseph . Contemporary Authors . Detroit . Gale Press . 2007 . 80 . 978-0-78767-905-7.
16. Book: Cicerone . Ionițoiu . Florin . Ștefănescu . Victimele Terorii Comuniste: Dicționar R . Victims of Communist Terror: Dictionary . Bucharest . Editura Mașina de Scris . 1997 . 37 . 978-9-73849-128-1 . RO.
17. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Doina Beșliu-Melinte . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202027/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/doina-besliu-melinte-1.html . dead . 24 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
18. Book: Soica, Sergiu . Nicolae Brînzeu și dosarul din Arhiva CNSAS: Povestea unui eroism discret . Nicolae Brînzeu and the File from the CNSAS Archive: The Story of a Discreet Heroism . Târgu-Lăpuș . Galaxia Gutenberg . 2013 . 136 . 978-9-731-41520-8 . RO.
19. Marius . Turda . The ambiguous victim: Miklós Nyiszli's narrative of medical experimentation in Auschwitz-Birkenau . Historein: A Review of the Past and Other Stories . 14 . 1 . 2014 . 45.
20. Book: Crohmălniceanu, Ovid . Ovid Crohmălniceanu . Literatura română între cele două războaie mondiale . Romanian Literature between the Two World Wars . 1 . Bucharest . Editura Minerva . 1972 . 346 . 490001217 . RO.
21. Book: Crăciun, Camelia . Politics and Ideology in Jewish Romanian Intellectual Life. During the Interwar Period: A. L. Zissu – W. Filderman Debate . Irina . Vainovski-Mihai . New Europe College Ștefan Odobleja Program Yearbook, 2010–2011 . Bucharest . New Europe College . 2010 . 88.
22. Book: Ciopraga, Constantin . Partituri și voci: poeți ai acestui timp . Sheet Music and Voices: Poets of our Time . Iasi . Junimea. 2004 . 251 . 978-9-73370-287-0 . RO.