2008 in Romania
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Incumbents
- President: Traian Băsescu[1]
- Prime Minister: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (until 22 December); Emil Boc (from 22 December)[2][3]
Events
- April 2 – A NATO summit takes place at the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest.[4]
- May - Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania story collection is published.[5]
- June 1 – 2008 Romanian local elections, with a runoff for mayors on June 15.[6]
- November 15 – Petrila Mine disaster: Twelve miners die after two explosions at a mine in Petrila, one of six coal mining cities in the Jiu Valley region of Hunedoara County.[7]
- November 24 – Another miner dies at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest, raising the death toll from the Petrila Mine disaster to 13.[8]
- November 30 – 2008 Romanian legislative election.[9]
Deaths
- January 3 – Petru Dugulescu, pastor, politician (born 1945)[10]
- January 22 – Ștefan Niculescu, composer (born 1927)[11]
- February 18 – Mihaela Mitrache, actress (born 1955)[12]
- August 16 – Elena Leușteanu, Olympic gymnast (born 1935)[13]
- September 7 – Ilarion Ciobanu, actor (born 1931)[14]
- September 14 – Ștefan Iordache, actor (born 1941)[15]
- October 8 – George Emil Palade, cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)[16]
