This is a list of 1989 events that occurred in Romania.

1989
in
Romania

Decades:
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Incumbents

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Events

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March

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April

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September

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  • 10 September - A Romanian cruiser carrying 179 people collides with a Bulgarian tugboat on the Danube, near Galați. Only 18 people are rescued from the cruiser.[6]

November

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  • 20-25 November - The 14th party congress takes place.[7]
  • 23 November – During the XIV Congress of the RCP, first shift workers from Timișoara Mechanical Works try to organize a revolt against the communist regime. Their movement is quelled by the Securitate organs.
  • 24 November – Nicolae Ceaușescu, the sole candidate for the communist party's leadership, is unanimously re-elected by the Central Committee[8] as the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party.[9][10][11]

December

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Bodies of protesters killed by Securitate officers in Cluj-Napoca
 
Ion Iliescu at the Romanian Television.
  • 22 December – Army units defect to the side of the demonstrators while the Ceaușescus flee and the Council of the National Salvation Front announces that it has overthrown the government.[7]
  • 23 December - The Ceaușescu spouses are reported to have been captured.[14]
 
National Salvation Front Council press release about the execution of the Ceaușescu spouses.
 
  • 31 December – The Decree-Law no. 8 of 31 December 1989 issued by NSFC reintroduces the political pluralism in Romania.

Births

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Deaths

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January

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March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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  • 30 August – Costin Murgescu, economist, jurist, journalist and diplomat (b. 1919)
  • 31 August – Dinu Kivu [ro], theatre and film critic (b. 1942)

September

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October

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November

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December

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Nicolae Ceaușescu
 
Hermann Oberth

Full date unknown

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ Grosescu, R. (2004). The Political Regrouping of Romanian Nomenklatura during the 1989 Revolution. Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, 4(1), 97-123.
  2. ^ "Ion Iliescu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d BBotY 1990, p. 491.
  4. ^ "Romania Pays Off Its Debts But Problems Linger". Associated Press. Vienna. 23 April 1989. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Romania pays off huge debt but problems linger on". The Business Times. Associated Press. 24 April 1989. p. 6.
  6. ^ BBotY 1990, p. 169.
  7. ^ a b c BBotY 1990, p. 492.
  8. ^ "WORLD : Unopposed Ceausescu Reelected". Los Angeles Times. 24 November 1989. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  9. ^ "Ceausescu re-elected". The Business Times. Associated Press. 25 November 1989. p. 12.
  10. ^ "Today in History: November 24, Ruby shoots Oswald". Associated Press. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  11. ^ Battiata, Mary (25 November 1989). "ISOLATED CEAUSESCU IS REELECTED". Washington Post. Bucharest. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  12. ^ BBotY 1990, p. 107.
  13. ^ "Virtual martial law in Romania". The Business Times. Reuter. 20 December 1989. p. 24.
  14. ^ BBotY 1990, p. 53.
  15. ^ "Television shows last hours of the 'anti-Christ'". The Guardian. 27 December 1989.
  16. ^ Demian, Sînziana (25 December 2009). "In Romania, Ceaușescu's death haunts Christmas". Global Post. Cluj-Napoca. Agence France-Presse.
  17. ^ BBotY 1990, p. 701.
  18. ^ ""Bio of gymnast Steliana Nistor by Amy Van Deusen"". Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  19. ^ "Sîrbu, Ion Desideriu". www.bjc.ro (in Romanian). Cluj County Library. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  20. ^ Flavius Cristian Marcau, "Revolution of 1989: Milea's Suicide", University of Târgu Jiu, Letter and Social Science Series, Issue 4, 2013, Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  21. ^ Boyes, Roger (24 December 2009). "Ceausescu looked in my eyes and he knew that he was going to die". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2010.

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