1924 in Romania
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Events from the year 1924 in Romania. The year saw the first time that the country competed as a team in the Summer Olympic Games, and, although the country won no medals, Romania went on to enter every subsequent game apart from 1932 Summer Olympics.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 January â The Aeronautica RegalÄ RomânÄ (ARR), or Romanian Royal Aeronautics, is founded.[3]
- 29 March â Rioters in Bucharest target Jews in anti-semitic attacks that continued through the night into the next morning.[4]
- 3 April â The Italian government issues Romania with an ultimatum requiring a payment of 80 million Italian lira for outstanding debts. Several Regia Marina warships are stationed off the port of ConstanÈa to back up the demand.[5]
- 10 April â King Ferdinand and Queen Marie arrive in Paris on a royal visit. Though officially only a friendly visit, it was believed that Romania was seeking an alliance with France as a counter to unfriendly relations with Italy, Russia and Spain.[6]
- 11 April â The Romanian government bans the Romanian Communist Party.[7]
- 16 April â Romania announces it has settled its debts with Italy.[8]
- 27 May â The Romania national football team compete for the first time in the 1924 Summer Olympics. They are defeated 6â0 by the Netherlands.[9]
- 29 May â An ammunition depot explodes in Cotroceni, causing $3 million damage to the Royal Palace and other buildings.[10]
- 5 July â Romania enters the Summer Olympics for the first time as a team. Although the team does not receive any medals, the country goes on to compete in every game apart from the 1932 games .[11]
- 10 August â Romania is one of the nine countries represented at the first First International Silent Games held in Paris.[12]
- 12 October â The declaration of the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic heightens tensions between Moldovans and Romanians.[13]
- 25 November â The Bucharest government vote one million lei to construct a crematorium.[14]
- 23 December â Nicolae Bretan's opera Golem is first performed at the Hungarian Theater in Cluj.[15]
Births
- 2 January â Victor Mercea, nuclear physicist (died 1987).
- 15 February â Kemal Karpat, historian and professor at the University of WisconsinâMadison (died 2019).
- 20 February â Eugen Barbu, novelist, short story writer, and journalist (died 1993).[16]
- 8 March â Alma Redlinger, painter and illustrator (died 2017).[17]
- 15 June â Hédi Szmuk, Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist, survivor of Nazi concentration camps (died 2022).[18]
- 15 August â Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, poet (died 1942).[19]
- 26 August â Elena Moldovan Popoviciu, mathematician (died 2009).[20]
- 8 September â Solange d'Herbez de la Tour, architect.[21]
- 5 October â Marianne Fillenz, neuroscientist (died 2012).[22]
- 27 November â Renée Annie Cassian-MÄtÄsaru, pen name Nina Cassian, children's author, journalist, poet, translator and film critic (died 2014).[23]
- 17 December â Alexander Bickel, legal scholar and expert on the United States Constitution (died 1974).[24]
Deaths
- 15 April â Eduard Caudella, composer (born 1841).[25]
- 19 October â Iancu Flondor, politician who advocated the Union of Bukovina with Romania (born 1865).[26]
- 22 October â Wilhelm Knechtel, botanist and numismatist (born 1837).[27]