1954 in Romania

Events from the year 1954 in Romania. The year was marked by the 1954 Romanian blizzard.

Incumbents

• President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic: Petru Groza.
• Prime Minister: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.
• General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party:
  • Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (until 19 April).
  • Gheorghe Apostol (from 19 April).

Events

• 9 January – Opera Națională București (Bucharest National Opera) perform for the first time at their new venue. The performance is Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades.
• 3 February – Records are set during a massive snowstorm when 115.9 L/m² (2.37 imp gal/sq ft) snow falls on Grivița, a layer of snow 175 m (574 ft) thick is found in Călărași and a high windspeed of 126 km/h (78 mph) is reported in Bucharest.
• 31 March – Jewish writer A. L. Zissu is sentenced to life imprisonment for "conspiring against the social order".
• 17 April – Article 4 of Decree nr. 189 establishes ensigns for auxiliary and Coast Guard vessels as well as serving ships of the Romanian Navy.
• 15 May – The Latin Union is created with Romania a founder member.
• 18 September – TARS is renamed TAROM (Transporturi Aeriene Române, Romanian Air Transport) to recognise the full ownership of the airline by the Romanian state.
• 5 December – Metalul Reșița become the first club representing Divizia B to win the Romanian Cup final.
• Unknown date – The Institute for Film and the Institute for Theatre I. L. Caragiale merge to form the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC).

Births

• 25 January – Ecaterina Oancia, rowing cox, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• 16 February – Maria Ștefan, sprint canoer, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• 10 May – Amos Guttman, Romanian-born director of the first ever Israeli LGBT-themed film (died 1993).
• 19 June – Dan Goldstein, software entrepreneur and businessman in Israel (died 2022).
• 28 June – Adrian Ioviță, mathematician.
• 25 August – Miron Cozma, labor-union organizer, politician, and leader of the Jiu Valley coal miners' union.
• 26 October – Victor Ciorbea, Prime Minister between 12 December 1996 and 30 March 1998.
• 7 November – Maria Grapini, politician and engineer.

Deaths

• 3 January – Elena Farago, poet and children's author (born 1878).
• 7 January – Alexandru Cisar, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest (born 1880).
• 17 April – Execution of political prisoners:
  • Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu, politician, lawyer, sociologist and economist (born 1900).
  • Remus Koffler, communist activist (born 1902).
• 16 May – Vladimir Ghika, Roman Catholic priest, died at Jilava Prison, beatified as a martyr in 2013 (born 1873).
• 15 August – Alexandru Toma, poet, journalist and translator (born 1875).
• December 17 – Eugen Țurcanu, criminal who was executed at Jilava Prison for his role in the re-education experiment at Pitești Prison (born 1925).
• December 25 – Ioan Arbore, major general during World War II, died at Văcărești Prison (born 1892).

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