1958 in Romania explained

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

^[1]

• • Petru Groza (until 7 January).
  • Ion Gheorghe Maurer (from 11 January).
• Prime Minister

Chivu Stoica.^[2]

• General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.^[3]

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.^[4]
• 27 May – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declares that Soviet troops will withdraw from Romania.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• 25 July – The last Soviet troops leave Romania, ending the Soviet occupation.^[8]
• 14 November – Romania establishes its first diplomatic relations at the embassy level with a sub-Saharan country, Guinea.^[9]
• Unknown – The last Csángós school is closed as part of the Romanianization of Western Moldavia.^[10]

Art and literature

• Ciulinii Bărăganului, a Franco-Romanian film directed by Louis Daquin and Gheorghe Vitanidis, based on a novel of the same title by Panait Istrati, was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.^[11]

Births

• 10 February – Olga Homeghi, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.^[12]
• 9 March – Cornelia Catangă, lăutari musician (died 2021).^[13]
• 25 June – Gigi Becali, businessman and politician.^[14]
• 29 June – Oana Lungescu, journalist and NATO principal spokesperson.^[15]
• 4 July – Elena Horvat, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.^[16]
• 23 August – Iosif Matula, politician and member of the European Parliament.^[17]
• 6 November – Elena Bondar, rower, bronze medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[18]

Deaths

• 7 January – Petru Groza, President since 1952 and Prime Minister between 1945 and 1952 (born 1884).^[19]
• 17 February – Natalie Bierle, film actress who used the pseudonym Tala Birell (born 1907).^[20]
• 26 May – Constantin Cantacuzino, aviator, the leading Romanian fighter ace in World War II (born 1905).^[21]
• 24 August –Veronica Antal, professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, the first Romanian woman to be beatified, on 22 September 2018 (born 1935).^[22]
• 2 September – Iosif Capotă, physician who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters, executed at Gherla Prison (born 1912).^[23]
• 7 December – Constantin Brăiloiu, composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1893).^[24]

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. Tadeusz . Kopyś . Tadeusz . Stanek. . The History of Hungarian Autonomy in Transylvania 1952-1968 . Politeja . 10 . 1 . 2008 . 178 . 24919299 . 6 May 2022.
5. Book: Verona, Sergiu . Military Occupation and Diplomacy: Soviet Troops in Romania, 1944–1958 . Durham . . 1992 . 194 . 978-0-82231-171-3.
6. Johanna . Granville . "If Hope Is Sin, Then We Are All Guilty": Romanian Students' Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution and Soviet Intervention, 1956–1958 . The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East European Studies . 1905 . April 2008 . 27 . 6 May 2022.
7. Book: Deletan, Dennis . Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965 . New York . St. Martin's Press . 1998 . 276 . 978-0-31221-904-8.
8. Eugene . Boia . The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Romania, 1955-1958 . Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History . 2018 . 20 .
9. Book: Constantin C. . Giurescu . Horia C. . Matei . Marcel . Popa . Ion . Alexandrescu . Ioan . Chiper . Chronological History of Romania . Bucharest . Editura Enciclopedică Română . 1974 . 477 . 251025169 .
10. Book: Mandelbaum, Michael . The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe . New York . . 1999 . 48 . 978-0-87609-257-6.
11. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Ciulinii Bărăganului . August 24, 2022. www.festival-cannes.com.
12. Olga Homeghi-Bularda. https://web.archive.org/web/20151007161935/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/olga-homeghi-bularda-1.html . dead . 7 October 2015 .
13. Web site: Laura . Buclu . Cornelia Catanga, cântăreaţa de muzică lăutărească, a murit din cauza COVID-19 . Cornelia Catanga, singer of lăutari music, dies due to COVID-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220213210256/https://www.mediafax.ro/social/cornelia-catanga-cantareata-de-muzica-lautareasca-a-murit-din-cauza-covid-19-19983214 . 13 February 2022 . RO.
14. 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
15. Web site: La mulți ani, Oana Lungescu! . Happy birthday, Oana Lungescu! . https://web.archive.org/web/20220506170653/http://www.revistavip.net/Sarbatoritul_saptamanii/La_multi_ani_Oana_Lungescu%21 . VIP . 6 May 2022 . RO.
16. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Elena Oprea-Horvat . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925160226/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/op/elena-oprea-horvat-1.html . dead . 25 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
17. Web site: Iosif Matula . https://web.archive.org/web/20190522091645/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/95017/IOSIF_MATULA/history/7 . 22 May 2019 . European Parliament.
18. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Elena Bondar . https://web.archive.org/web/20151002120720/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/elena-bondar-1.html . dead . 2 October 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
19. Book: Tucker, Spencer . The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection . Santa Barbara . ABC-CLIO . 2020 . 978-1-44086-076-8 . 669.
20. Book: Vazzana, Eugene Michael . Silent Film Necrology . London . McFarland . 2002 . 47 . 978-0-78641-059-0.
21. Book: Ilie, Cornel-Constantin . Între Bellu și Montparnasse: Români celebri în fața morții . Between Bellu and Montparnasse: Famous Romanians in the Face of Death . Bucharest . Historia . 2008 . 31 . 978-9-73178-119-8 . RO.
22. Web site: Simona . Stanciu . Ceremonie grandioasă pentru Veronica Antal, prima femeie din România pe care Biserica Catolică o va beatifica . Grandiose ceremony for Veronica Antal, the first woman in Romania to be beatified by the Catholic Church . . 20 September 2018. 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 . 21 September 2018 . RO.
23. Web site: Doctorul Iosif Capotă, eroul Mărgăului . România Liberă. Claudiu. Pădurean. February 16, 2012. August 16, 2022. Romanian.
24. Ion . Taloș . Despre globalizarea etnomuzicologiei: Constantin Brăiloiu și Sanda Golopenția . The globalization of ethnomusicology: Constantin Brăiloiu and Sanda Golopenția . Steaua . 70 . 4 . 2019 . 51 . RO.