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1859 - Alexandru Ioan Cuza establishes Wallachia's Bureau of Statistics and appoints Dionisie Pop-Martian as its head
1861 - Birth of geologist and paleontologist Sava Athanasiu, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (d. 8 April 1946)
1893 - Death of Doctor of Law, a graduate of the universities in Paris, Brussels and Geneva, conservative independent MP Emmanuel Pache-Protopopescu, mayor of Bucharest (b. 12 February 1845)
1896 - Birth of chemist Mircea Ionescu, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (d. 18 November 1980)
1908 - Establishment of Romanian Writers Society, with publicist Cincinat Pavelescu as its first chairman
1923 - Birth of physician Gheorghe Niculescu, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (d. 21 May 1995)
1943 - Birth of painter Augustin Costinescu
1948 - Birth of poetess, painter Iolanda Malamen
1972 - Death of documentary film director Gabriel Barta (b. 22 October 1923)
1995 - Death of actor Nicolae Dinica (b. 1 January 1934)
1996 - Death of poet Alexandru Jebeleanu (b. 7 October 1923)
2000 - Inking in Chisinau, Moldova of the Treaty of privileged and of cooperation partnership between Romania and the Republic of Moldova
2004 - President Ion Iliescu attends works of the European Economic Forum in Warsaw, dedicated mainly to the EU enlargement
2006 - President Traian Basescu attends reunion of the heads of state of the Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro (Durres, Albania)
2012 - Death of physicist Margareta Giurgea, member of the Romanian Academy (b. 19 August 1915).AGERPRES
