This is a list of 1966 events that occurred in the Socialist Republic of Romania.
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Incumbents
editEvents
editMarch
edit- March 15 – The decennial census is held in Romania, and counted the population of Romania on that date.[3][4]
June
edit- June 19-25 – 1966 World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships is held in Bucharest.[5]
July
edit- July 7 – At the Warsaw Pact conference in Bucharest, Romania makes a joint declaration along with the European Communist nations to send volunteers to Vietnam if requested for such support by the North Vietnamese government.[6]
August
edit- August 11 – A Lisunov Li-2 airliner, operated by Tarom crashed in the Lotriora Valley in Romania, near the city of Sibiu, killing all 24 people on board.[7]
October
edit- October 1-9 – EuroBasket Women 1966 of the European Women Basketball Championship is held in Romania.[8]
- Decree 770 is personally sanctioned by Ceaușescu, and signed by the communist Romanian government in 1967.[9][10]
Births
editFebruary
edit- February 11 –Cristina Elena Grigoraș, retired Romanian artistic gymnast[11]
September
editDeaths
editMarch
edit- March 9 – Duiliu Marcu, architect (born 1885).[13]
August
edit- August 28 – Leontin Sălăjan, Communist military and political leader (born 1913).
October
edit- October 6 – Mitchell Fields (Mendel Feldman), 65, Romanian-American sculptor.[14]
References
edit- ^ Behr, E. (1991). Kiss the hand you cannot bite: the rise and fall of the Ceaușescus. London: Hamish Hamilton.
- ^ Profile of Ion Gheorghe Maurer
- ^ "Hungarians in Transylvania between 1870 and 1995". Retrieved 20 July 2008.
- ^ "Populaţia după etnie la recensămintele din perioada 1930–2002, pe judeţe" (PDF) (in Romanian). Institutul Naţional de Statistică. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
- ^ WC Archive on KZS
- ^ "Warsaw Bloc Offers Volunteers to North Viet Nam", Chicago Tribune, July 8, 1966, p11
- ^ Accident description for YR-TAN at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 17 April 2013.
- ^ FIBA Europe profile
- ^ "DECRET Nr. 770 din 1 octombrie 1966". Romanian Justice Ministry. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ "Decretul 770/1966 - Legislatie gratuita". www.legex.ro. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ^ "Cristina Grigoraş". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
- ^ BBC News, 13 October 2009. Romanian government falls on vote. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
- ^ "Bucharest Centennial: Duiliu Marcu, an architect of modernist Bucharest". www.romania-insider.com. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B. (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present. 1984