AUGUST 31 IN HISTORY
Romanian Language Day
1904 - Birth of chemist and pedologist Nicolae Cernescu, member of the Romanian Academy (b. April 26, 1967)
1913 - Death of Aurel Vlaicu, engineer, pilot and Romanian air pioneer, posthumous member of the Romanian Academy (b. November 6, 1882)
1927 - Birth of prose writer, literary critic Radu Petrescu (d. 1 February 1982)
1933 - Birth of George Genoiu, playwright and theater critic
1940 - Powerful protests against the Second Vienna Award occur all throughout Romania (August 31 - September 3)
1944 - A royal decree partially reinstates Romania's Constitution of 1923 (suspended through the 1938 Constitution that ended democracy in Romania)
1953 - Birth of actress Dana Dogaru
1961 - Birth of Ioan Gyuri Pascu, musician, actor, a former member of the Divertis group (d. 26 September 2016)
1986 - A 7.1 Richter scale degrees earthquake takes place in Vrancea seismic area at 00.28 Bucharest local time, at 131 km. in-depth. The earthquake didn't record major damage
2000 - Establishment, in Bucharest, of the Institute for the Study of National Minority Issues, with the purpose of ensuring a good knowledge by public institutions, non-governmental organizations and Romanian citizens of the way in which national minority communities preserve, develop and express their ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity, as well as the means for guaranteeing those rights
2011 - Death of pediatric surgeon Alexandru Pesamosca (b. March 14, 1930)
2011 - Death of sculptor and professor Mircea Spataru (b. July 27, 1937)
2012 - Death of poet Constanta Buzea (b. March 29, 1941)
2013 - Beatification of monsignor Vladimir Ghika (1873 - 1954), Roman-Catholic priest and Romanian prince, takes place at Romexpo, in Bucharest, during a solemn Holy Liturgy, presided over by the emissary of Pope Francis, cardinal Angelo Amato, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
2013 - Death of Mihai Oroveanu, historian, curator and photographer, director of the National Contemporary Art Museum of Bucharest. (b. September 20, 1946)
2014 - Death of former communist Foreign Affairs minister Stefan Andrei (b. March 29, 1931).
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