1960 in Romania explained

Events from the year 1960 in Romania. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, Iolanda Balaș wins the first Romanian Olympic gold medal.

Incumbents

• President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic

Ion Gheorghe Maurer.^[1]

• Prime Minister

Chivu Stoica.^[2]

• General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party

Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.^[3]

Events

• 29 February – Six young writers are sentenced to prison and forced labour for "conspiracy and agitation".^[4]
• 8 September – Iolanda Balaș wins the first Romanian Olympic gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[5]
• 26 October – Romania established diplomatic relations with Cuba.^[6]

Art and literature

• Telegrame, starring Grigore Vasiliu Birlic, premiers in Romania. It is shown at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.^[7]

Births

• 4 January – Tecla Marinescu, kayaker, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.^[8]
• 10 February – Matei Machedon, mathematician.
• 1 June – Chira Apostol, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.^[9]
• 22 June – Rovana Plumb, politician and president of the Social Democratic Party in 2014 and 2015.^[10]
• 3 August – Mariana Constantin, gymnast, silver medal winner at the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[11]
• 31 August – Vali Ionescu, long jumper, silver medal winner at the 1992 Summer Olympics.^[12]
• 13 November – Teodora Ungureanu, gymnast, thrice medal winner at the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[13]
• 1 December – Leontina Văduva, soprano.^[14]

Deaths

• 8 January – Ion Codreanu, major general during World War II (born 1891).
• 6 February – Victor Gomoiu, surgeon and founder of hospitals (born 1882).^[15]
• 11 February – Clara Haskil, pianist (born 1895).^[16]
• 13 May – Andrei Magieru, theologian (born 1891).^[17]
• 3 June – Ana Pauker, communist leader and the world's first female foreign minister (born 1893).^[18]

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. Book: Tuzu, Andreea Iustina . Life after Detention for Former Political Prisoners . Cosmin . Budeancă . Dalia . Báthory . Histories (un)spoken: Strategies of Survival and Social-professional Integration in Political Prisoners' Families in Communist Central and Eastern Europe in the '50s and '60s . ZURICH . LIT Verlag . 2018 . 136 . 978-3-64390-983-1 . https://books.google.com/books?id=239SDwAAQBAJ&dq=romania+24+february+1960&pg=PA136.
5. Web site: Obituary: Iolanda Balas, Romanian athlete. Davidson, Jack. . 23 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201212133659/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-iolanda-balas-romanian-athlete-1480029 . 12 December 2020.
6. Book: Larson, David L. . The "Cuban Crisis" of 1962: Selected Documents and Chronology . Lanham . University Press of America . 1986 . 301 . 978-0-81915-298-5.
7. Book: Ion . Cantacuzino . Manuela . Gheorghiu . Cinematograful românesc contemporan, 1949–1975. Contemporary Romanian Cinema, 1949–1975 . Bucharest . Editura Meridiane . 1976 . 216 . 251762553 . RO.
8. Tecla Marinescu-Borcănea. https://web.archive.org/web/20150925130100/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/tecla-marinescu-borcanea-1.html . dead . 25 September 2015 .
9. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Chira Apostol. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924190805/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ap/chira-apostol-1.html . dead . 24 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
10. Book: Mureșan, Marius . Destinația Cotroceni: alegerile prezidențiale în România 1990–2014 . Destination Cotroceni: Presidential Elections in Romania 1990–2014 . Iaşi . Polirom . 2000 . 394 . 978-6-06171-506-0 . RO.
11. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Mariana Constantin . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924234726/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/co/mariana-constantin-1.html . dead . 24 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
12. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Valy Ionescu . https://web.archive.org/web/20150912162104/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/io/valy-ionescu-1.html . dead . 12 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
13. Web site: Hilary . Evans . Arild . Gjerde . Jeroen . Heijmans . Bill . Mallon . etal . Teodora Ungureanu . https://web.archive.org/web/20150921001919/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/un/teodora-ungureanu-1.html . dead . 21 September 2015 . Sports Reference LLC . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com.
14. Book: John . Warrack . Ewan . West . The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera . Oxford . Oxford University Press . 2003 . 529 . 978-0-19280-028-2 .
15. Book: Constantin C. . Giurescu . Lia Ioana . Ciplea . Five years and two months in the Sighet Penitentiary : May 7, 1950-July 5, 1955 . New York . Columbia University Press . 1994 . 146 . 978-0-88033-303-0.
16. Book: John . Gillespie . Anna . Gillespie . Notable Twentieth-century Pianists: A Bio-critical Sourcebook . Westport . Greenwood Press . 1995 . 373 . 978-0-31329-695-6.
17. Book: Păcurariu, Mircea . Dictionarul teologilor români . Dictionary of Romanian Theologians . Bucharest . Univers Enciclopedic . 1996 . 240 . 978-9-73973-914-6 . RO.
18. Book: Deletant, Dennis . Communist Terror in Romania . New York . . 1999 . 242 . 978-0-31221-904-8.