Events from the year 1936 in Romania. The year saw the

Craiova Trial The 1936 Craiova Trial (Romanian: ''Procesul de la Craiova'') was a political trial of some members of the Romanian Communist Party, part of the repression of communists in the Kingdom of Romania, judged by a military tribunal in Craiova. Arres ...

Romanian Communist Party The Romanian Communist Party ( ro, Partidul Comunist Român, , PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that woul ...

activists.

Incumbents

* King: Carol II. * Prime Minister: Gheorghe Tătărescu.

Events

* 10 May – The National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" () is founded. * 16 May – Ford Romania open their factory in Bucharest capable of assembling 2,500 cars a year. * 24 May – Romania wins the Balkan Cup for the third time, with Sándor Schwartz scoring the most goals in the tournament. * 5 June – Ana Pauker and eighteen other

Communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

activists are put on trial in Craiova. * 20 July – Romania signs the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits governing the Bosporus and Dardanelles. * Date unknown – Henri Rang wins silver in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

in the ''Grand Prix des Nations''.

Births

* 23 January –

Georgeta Hurmuzachi Georgeta Hurmuzachi-Dumitrescu (born 23 January 1936) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1956 Olympic Games.artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

, bronze medal winner at the

1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ...

. * 9 April –

Dorin N. Poenaru Dorin Mircea Stelian Poenaru (born April 9, 1936, Suiug, Bihor County) is a Romanian nuclear physicist and engineer. He contributed to the theory of heavy particle radioactivity (cluster decay). Education Poenaru completed his higher educat ...

, nuclear physicist and engineer. * 13 October – Elika Ussoskin, Romanian-born Israeli judge. * 25 October – Elena Mărgărit, gymnast, bronze medal winner at the 1956 and

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

. * 12 December – Iolanda Balaș,

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er who held the world record and became the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal, in the 1960 games. She also won a medal at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

Deaths

* 2 March –

Alexandru Ciura Alexandru Ciura (15 November 1876 – 2 March 1936) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian journalist, short story writer and priest. Born in Abrud, Ciura was descended from a long line of Greek-Catholic priests in the Țara Moților region of ...

, journalist, short story writer, and priest (born

1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...

). * 8 June – Dumitru Ștefănescu, known as

Gogea Mitu Dumitru Ștefănescu (September 15, 1909 – June 8, 1936), better known as Gogea Mitu, was a Romanian professional boxer. Mitu is also listed by the Guinness World Records, ''Guinness Book of World Records'' as the tallest professional boxer. ...

, the tallest Romanian and tallest professional boxer in history (born

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Januar ...

References

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