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1922 In Romania
Events from the year 1922 in Romania. The year saw the Dealul Spirii Trial and the crowning of King Ferdinand. Incumbents * King: Ferdinand I. * Prime Minister: ** Take Ionescu (until 19 January). ** Ion I. C. Brătianu (from 19 January). Events * 23 January – The Dealul Spirii Trial of members of the Communist Party commences. * 1 March – A general election is held for the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, running until 11 March. The governing National Liberal Party retains power. * 11 April – In a hearing, the prime minister publicly commends the work of the Communist Party. * 13 April – The king signs the Bessarabian Treaty, confirming the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. * 4 June – The government issues an amnesty decree for the release of the Dealul Spirii convicts, which is signed by the king two days later. * 15 October – Ferdinand is crowned King of Romania at Coronation Cathedral, Alba Iulia. * 18 December – The Magyar Party is founded. Births * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dealul Spirii Trial
Dealul Spirii Trial (Romanian: ''Procesul din Dealul Spirii'') was a political trial conducted by a military tribunal in the Kingdom of Romania. 271 members of the Communist Party of Romania were accused of treason after voting for the inclusion of the party into the Third International. The defendants were convicted and later pardoned. The trial was the first step of the repression of communists in the Kingdom of Romania. Less than two years after the trial, the parliament voted a total ban of the Communist Party and communist ideology; for the next two decades, the government enforced a violent repression against the communists and labour unions. A number of politicians and intellectuals, including Nicolae Iorga, Dem I. Dobrescu, and Iuliu Maniu voiced their discontent over the lack of constitutional basis for the trial. Arrests On May 12, 1921, the last day of the Congress of the Romanian Socialist-Communist Party, the party leaders (including Gheorghe Cristescu, Moscu Kohn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radu Câmpeanu
Radu-Anton Câmpeanu (; 28 February 1922 - 19 October 2016) was a Romanian politician who was also jurist and economist by profession, after graduating from the University of Bucharest in November 1945. During the interwar period and up until 1945, he was the leader of the National Liberal students' association at nationwide level (the equivalent of today's National Liberal Youth Wing). While in exile in France, at some point in time due to the exile of Paul Goma and his arrival in France, Câmpeanu was suspected to have become an informer for the Securitate (the dreadful Romanian Communist secret police), but no conclusive evidence has been produced to support this allegation. Câmpeanu was the first president of the contemporary National Liberal Party (PNL) between 1990 and 1993, a political party he helped re-found in early January 1990, shortly after the fall of Communism, as well as a Senator on behalf of the PNL between 1990 and 1992, and then once more between 2004 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 In The United States
Events from the year 1971 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government * President: Richard Nixon ( R-California) * Vice President: Spiro Agnew ( R-Maryland) * Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger (Minnesota) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: John William McCormack ( D-Massachusetts) (until January 3), Carl Albert ( D-Oklahoma) (starting January 21) * Senate Majority Leader: Mike Mansfield ( D-Montana) * Congress: 91st (until January 3), 92nd (starting January 3) Events January * January 1 – The Uniform Monday Holiday Act takes effect: Washington's Birthday and several other federal holidays are always observed on certain Mondays, resulting in more three-day weekends for federal employees. * January 2 – A ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. *January 8 ** Voyageurs National Park is established. ** Gulf Islands National Seashore is established. * January 12 – The landmark te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tudor Ganea
Tudor Ganea (October 17, 1922 –August 1971) was a Romanian-American mathematician, known for his work in algebraic topology, especially homotopy theory. Ganea left Communist Romania to settle in the United States in the early 1960s. He taught at the University of Washington. Life and work He studied mathematics at the University of Bucharest, and then started his research as a member of Simion Stoilow's seminar on complex functions. His papers from 1949–1952 were on covering spaces, topological groups, symmetric products, and the Lusternik–Schnirelmann category. During this time, he earned his candidate thesis in topology under the direction of Stoilow. In 1957, Ganea published in the ''Annals of Mathematics'' a short, yet influential paper with Samuel Eilenberg, in which the Eilenberg–Ganea theorem was proved and the celebrated Eilenberg–Ganea conjecture was formulated. The conjecture is still open. By 1958, Ganea and his mentee, Israel Bernstein, were the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In The United States
Events from the year 2019 in the United States. Incumbents Federal government *President: Donald Trump ( R-New York, then R-Florida) *Vice President: Mike Pence (R-Indiana) * Chief Justice: John Roberts (New York) * Speaker of the House of Representatives: Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) (until January 3), Nancy Pelosi ( D-California) (starting January 3) *Senate Majority Leader: Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) *Congress: 115th (until January 3), 116th (starting January 3) Events January * January 1 **All works published in 1923 except sound recordings enter the public domain in the United States, the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. **Washington state bans all persons under 21 years of age from purchasing a semi-automatic assault rifle. * January 3 – The Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, with a promise to end the government shutdown, but without funding for President Donald Trump's propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egon Balas
Egon Balas (June 7, 1922 in Cluj, Romania – March 18, 2019) was an applied mathematician and a professor of industrial administration and applied mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and did fundamental work in developing integer and disjunctive programming. Life and education Balas was born in Cluj (Romania) in a Hungarian Jewish family. His original name was Blatt, which was first changed to the Hungarian Balázs and then later to the Romanian Balaş. He was married to art historian Edith Balas, a survivor of Auschwitz, with whom he had two daughters. He was imprisoned by the Communist authorities for several years after the war. He left Romania in 1966 and accepted an appointment with Carnegie Mellon University in 1967. Balas obtained a "Diploma Licentiate" in economics ( Bolyai University, 1949) and Ph.D.s in economics ( University of Brussels, 1967) and mathema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirement of William P. Sisler in 2017, the university appointed as Director George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 In France
Events from the year 2001 in France. Incumbents * President: Jacques Chirac * Prime Minister: Lionel Jospin Events *March – The Renault Vel Satis is launched at the Geneva Motor Show. *8 March – Cantonales Elections held. *11 March – Cantonales Elections held. *11 March – Municipal Elections held. *18 March – Municipal Elections held. *April – PSA Peugeot Citroën replaces two of its longest running cars – the Citroën Xantia and Peugeot 306 – with the Citroën C5 and Peugeot 307 respectively. *September – Citroën launches the all-new C3 hatchback at the Frankfurt Motor Show as a replacement for the outdated Saxo. *21 September – The AZote Fertilisant chemical factory in Toulouse, explodes, killing 29 and seriously wounding over 2500. *November – The Peugeot 307 is voted European Car of the Year. Sport *15 April – Paris–Roubaix cycle race won by Servais Knaven of the Netherlands. *1 July – French Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher of Germany. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avant-garde Music
Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences. Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. Distinctions Avant-garde music may be distinguished from experimental music by the way it adopts an extreme position within a certain tradition, whereas experimental music lies outside tradition. In a historical sense, some musicologists use the term "avant-garde music" for the radical compositions that succeeded the death of Anton Webern in 1945,Paul Du Noyer (ed.), "Contemporary", in the ''Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music: From Rock, Pop, Jazz, Blues and Hip Hop to Classical, Folk, Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and engineer. After 1947, he fled Greece, becoming a naturalised citizen of France eighteen years later. Xenakis pioneered the use of mathematical models in music such as applications of set theory, stochastic processes and game theory and was also an important influence on the development of electronic and computer music. He integrated music with architecture, designing music for pre-existing spaces, and designing spaces to be integrated with specific music compositions and performances. Among his most important works are '' Metastaseis'' (1953–54) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra; percussion works such as '' Psappha'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 In Romania
Events from the year 2005 in Romania. Incumbents *President: Traian Băsescu *Prime Minister: Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu Events *28 April - The MTV Romania Music Awards 2005 ceremony is held at Sala Palatului. * 21 May - Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem represent Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest in Ukraine, with the song "Let Me Try"; they finish third. *November - The People's Party is formed by Corneliu Ciontu. *4 June - The Civic Forum of the Romanians of Covasna, Harghita and Mureș is founded. *16 December - The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic, is elevated to the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church by Pope Benedict XVI. *December - President Traian Băsescu and United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sign an agreement that will allow a U.S. military presence at several Romanian facilities primarily in the eastern part of the country. Deaths *16 March - Sergiu Cunescu, politician, the leader of the Social Democratic Party of Romania (PSDR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ștefan Augustin Doinaș
Ștefan Augustin Doinaș (; pen name of Ștefan Popa) (April 26, 1922 – May 25, 2002) was a Romanian Neoclassical poet of the Communist era. Doinaș was born in Cherechiu, Bihor County. After completing high school in Arad, he studied philology in Sibiu, where the University of Cluj had moved in the wake of the Hungarian occupation of Northern Transylvania. Here he joined the Sibiu Literary Circle, a group formed around Lucian Blaga. Doinaș published his first volume of poems, ''Cartea mareelor'', in 1964. Some of his most famous works include: ''Omul cu compasul'', ''Seminția lui Laokoon'', ''Anotimpul discret'', ''Interiorul unui poem'' and ''Lamentații''. In 1992, he became a member of the Romanian Academy, and in 2002, honorary president of the Writers' Union of Romania. Doinaș died of throat cancer in Bucharest. That night, his wife Silvia Lia Popa, a former first ballerina whom he had married in 1958, committed suicide. Presence in English Language An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
