1993 in Romania
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Events
January
- 26 January – George Homoștean is arrested in "The Bus" case Romanian: Dosarul "Autobuzul"), about a 1981 operation where 6 bus passengers were murdered.[1]
February
- 6 February – A former interior minister and seven police officers confess about having had taken part in "The Bus" Operation of 1981.[2]
- 8 February – Gheorghe Vîlceanu replaces Doru Viorel Pană as prefect of Bucharest.[3]
March
- 24 March – The government decides to establish a Council for National Minorities, a governmental body.[4]
- 31 March – The National Salvation Front fuses with the Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Democrat).[5]
- April – Telefónica Romania, the first mobile phone operator in Romania, launches the Telemobil service.[6]
April
- 14 April – The Council for National Minorities, representative of 17 ethnic groups living in Romania, is established.[4]
May
- 23 May – The National Salvation Front officially renames itself to Democratic Party (FSN) (Romanian: Partidul Democrat (FSN)).[7]
June
- 9-10 June – The Democratic National Salvation Front absorbs the Republican Party (Romanian: Partidul Republican), the Cooperatist Party (Romanian: Partidul Cooperatist) and the Socialist Democratic Party, renaming itself into the Romanian Social Democratic Party.[8] Oliviu Gherman is reelected the party's president and Adrian Năstase is elected executive president.[9]
July
- 1 July – The Democratic Party (FSN) creates the Social-Democratic Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Social-Democrată, ASD) with the Traditional Social-Democratic Party (Romanian: Partidul Social-Democrat Tradițional, PDST).[7]
August
- 28 August – Prime minister Nicolae Văcăroiu replaces 4 ministers of his cabinet.[10]
September
- 15 September – The visit of Hungarian foreign minister Géza Jeszenszky in Romania starts.[11]
- 16 September – Hungarian minister of foreign affairs Géza Jeszenszky and his Romanian counterpart, Teodor Meleșcanu, sign a treaty on the promotion and protection of investments and an agreement to avoid double tax imposition.[12]
- 19 September – The visit of Hungarian foreign minister Géza Jeszenszky in Romania ends.[13]
October
- 12 October – Virgil Măgureanu is named head of the Romanian Intelligence Service.[14]
- 22 October – A bust of marshal Ion Antonescu is inaugurated in Slobozia.[15] The inauguration of the statue was attended by Mihai Ungheanu, state secretary in the Ministry of Culture, and member of parliament Corneliu Vadim Tudor.[16]
November
- 18 November – About 50,000 people march through Bucharest to protest the economic deterioration of Romania.[17]
- 29 November – Romanian singer Ioan Luchian Mihalea is murdered.[18][19]
Births
- 17 August – Alexandru Albu, footballer.[20]
Deaths
- 14 September – Geo Bogza, Romanian poet, essayist, and journalist, titular member of the Romanian Academy (born 1908).[21]
- 4 October – Dumitru Stăniloae, Romanian Orthodox priest and theologian, titular member of the Romanian Academy (born 1903).
- 18 December – Gheorghe Cozorici, actor (born 1933).[22]
