SEPTEMBER 12 IN HISTORY
1869 - Birth of chemist Gheorghe Gh. Longinescu, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (d. March 7, 1939)
1869 - Death of poet and prose writer Constantin Stamati, a founding member of the Romanian Academic Society (b. 1786)
1882 - Birth of writer Ion Agarbiceanu, member of the Romanian Academy (d. May 28, 1963)
1883 - Birth of physician Constantin Ionescu-Mihaiesti, a member of the Romanian Academy (d. 14 April 1962)
1887 - Birth of composer and orchestra conductor George Georgescu, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (d. September 1, 1964)
1910 - Birth of Switzerland's Grand Rabbi Alexandru Safran, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (d. July 28, 2006)
1916 - WWI sees Bucharest City bombed by the German Aviation. The town of Petrosani is conquered thanks to Romanian counteroffensive
1919 - Law decree is issued establishing the Cluj University. Its first president is Sextil Puscariu, an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist, also known for his involvement in administrative and party politics
1919 - Law decree issued by the Leading Council of Transylvania for Agrarian reform and the introduction of universal suffrage
1922 - Birth of visual artist Ion Murariu (Nica) (d. March 22, 2012)
1943 - Birth of specialist in and professor of Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies Dan Mihaiu Slusanschi (d. July 22, 2008)
1944 - The Romanian Army frees Sf. Gheorghe from Hortyst occupation, the first Romanian city to be thus freed
1944 - An armistice convention is signed in Moscow by the Romanian Government and the governments of the United Nations that enshrined Romania's pulling out of the anti-Fascist war and turning the arms against Germany
1997 - Annual meeting of the prime ministers of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), the first to be attended by Romania as full member. Representing the country is Prime Minister Victor Ciorbea
2007 - His Holiness Daniel Ciobotea is elected Patriarch of the Romanian Christian Orthodox Church by the Church Electoral College
2013 - Nine die and more than 2,000 are evacuated after floods overran several localities in Galati County. The tally is 22 localities, 2,434 evacuees and 1,373 inundated households, 11 of which are fully destroyed
2014 - The Romanian Olympic Committee celebrates centennial of Romania's Olympic movement at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest
2022 - Death of Radu Ciuceanu, historian and political scientist, honorary member of the Romanian Academy (b. 16 April 1928).
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