2007 Bulgaria and Romania join the E.U.
1996 26th New York City Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18
1994 Romania eliminates Argentina 3-2 in soccer world cup
1994 U.S. loses to Romania 1-0 in 1994 soccer world cup
1994 Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed
1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
1989 Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
1986 Maricica Puica of Romania runs 2,000 m in 5:28.69 (record for women)
1977 Anca Barna, Cluj, Romania, tennis star, semifinals 1995 ITF Poland
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1976 Diana Maria Urdareanu, Miss Romania Universe 1997
1975 Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of Romania (1955-61), dies at 66
1974 Alex Radutescu, Romania, tennis star
1974 Adrian Voinea, born in Focsani, Romania, tennis star, 1995 Malta
1974 Irina Spirlea, born in Bucharest, Romania, tennis star, 1996 Amelia Island
1972 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
1971 60th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Charlotte (3-2)
1971 Mihai Apostal, born in Bucharest, Romania, Canadian kayaker 1996 Olympics
1971 Mihai Bagiu, born in Timisoara, Romania, U.S. gymnast 1996 Olympics
1969 58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0)
1969 President Nixon visits Romania
1967 Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
1967 Gheorge Popescu, Romania, soccer player, Barcelona
1967 Gica Popescu, Romania, soccer player, PSV
1965 Romania adopts constitution
1965 Melita Ruhn, born in Romania, horse vaulter 1980 Olympics bronze
1965 Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania
1964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist, won Olympic silver in 1980
1962 Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, born in Romania, long jumper 1984 Olympics gold
1961 Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnist, 1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976
1958 Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania)
1958 Petru Groza, premier/president (Romania, 1945-58), dies at 74
1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies
1956 Mariana Simionescu, Tirgu Neamt Romania, 1st wife of Bjorn Borg
1955 Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1955 Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star
1953 Carol II, King of Romania (1930-40), dies at 59
1952 Roman Codreanu, Romania, wrestler, Olympic-1980
1952 Doemitri Dorin Prunariu, Romania, cosmonaut, Soyuz 40
1950 Maricica Puica, born in Romania, 2K runner, world record
1950 Radu Voina, born in Romania, team handball, Oly-silver/2 bronze-1972, 76, 80
1950 Adrian Cosma, born in Romania, team handball 1976 Olympics silver
1947 King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
1947 Iuliu Maniu's Boer party becomes forbidden in Romania
1946 Ilie Nastase, born in Bucharest, Romania, tennis player, U.S. Open 1972
1946 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Romania, executed
1945 Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist, Enesco 1st prize-1967
1945 U.S.S.R. returns Transylvania to Romania
1945 King Michael of Romania gives in to Communist government
1944 Killinger, German ambassador to Romania, commits suicide
1944 Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania
1944 King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies and dismissed the pro-Axis premier, Marshal Ion Antonescu
1944 Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania
1942 USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
1942 Dumitru Dediu, Romania, cosmonaut, Soyuz 40 backup
1941 551 Jews are shot in Kishnev ghetto in Romania
1941 Germany, Italy and Romania declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1941 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania
1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania
1940 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
1940 Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
1940 German troops occupies Romania
1940 Crown prince Michael succeeds Carol II as king of Romania
1940 Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
1939 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania, murdered
1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania
1939 Poland's president Moscicki and PM Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania
1939 Viorica Viscopoleanu, Romania, long jumper, Oly-gold-68
1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1938 Fascist coup in Romania, fails
1938 Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1937 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
1936 Iolanda Balas, Romania, high jumper 1960 Olympics gold
1934 U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations
1934 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)
1933 Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
1933 Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
1932 Lia Manoliu, Romania, discus thrower, 1968 Olympics gold
1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord
1929 U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, /Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986
1928 Sergiu Comissiona, born in Buch, Romania, conductor, Haifa Symph 1959-64
1928 6 children die and 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
1927 Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania, dies at 61
1924 Joan Aiken, Romania, writer of children's songs
1922 Moses Rosen, chief Rabbi of Romania
1922 Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
1921 Michael I, King of Romania, 1927-30, 40-47
1920 Romania annexes Bessarabia
1920 Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania
1919 Romania annexes Transylvania
1917 Train near Chirurcha Romania catches fire and explodes; 100s die
1916 Bulgaria declares war on Romania
1916 Germany declares war on Romania
1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary
1916 Elisabeth OL, [Carmen Sylva], Queen of Romania, dies at 72
1914 Karol I, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, King of Romania (1881-1914), dies
1914 Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator, New Yorker
1913 Lucien Goldmann, Romania/Fren sociologist/philosopher, Le dieu cache
1913 Romania declares war on Bulgaria
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1908 Chivu Stoica, premier of Romania, 1955-61
1903 Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1902 John Houseman, Bucharest Romania, actor, Kingsfield-Paper Chase
1902 U.S. protests anti-semitism in Romania
1902 Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1900 Jean Negulesco, Craiova Romania, director, Johnny Belinda, Jessica
1899 George Calinescu, Romania, literature, Enigma Otilei
1897 Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania
1893 Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], Romania, actor, 10 Commandments
1893 Charles II, King of Romania, 1930-40
1893 Armand Calinescu, premier of Romania
1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn, Romania, communist/foreign minister, 1945-52
1890 Vasile Alecsandri, Romania poet/Foreign minister, dies at 69
1886 Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic, 1919
1883 Austria-Hungary/Germany/Romania signs military treaty
1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1875 Marie, queen consort of Ferdinand I of Romania, 1914-27
1875 Stefan O Iosif, Romania, poet, Beautiful Irine
1873 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania, dies at 53
1871 Friedrich, Prince of Liechtenstein, Romania
1871 Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania
1865 Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
1862 Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1847 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian
1843 Elisabeth OL, queen of Romania/poet, Rumanische Dichtungen
1842 Abdul-Hamid II, 34th sultan of Turkey, lost Romania and Serbia
1839 Carol I, King of Romania, 1881-1914
1821 Vasile Alecsandri, born in Romania, poet/ Foreign Minister/diplomat
1821 Ion Bratianu, Lib, premier of Romania, 1876-88
1820 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia, Wallachia and Romania
1819 Nicolae Filimon, Romania, writer/critic, Ciocoii Vechi Si Noi
1802 Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician, non-Euclidean geometry
1802 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica
1788 Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
1317 Pontifical degree "Sancta Romania" against spiritualists
506 King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
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