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Events from the year 1958 in Romania. The year saw the end of the Soviet occupation of Romania with the last Soviet troops leaving the country.

Incumbents

• President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic:
  • Petru Groza (until 7 January).
  • Ion Gheorghe Maurer (from 11 January).
• Prime Minister: Chivu Stoica.
• General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

Events

• 20 February – A Hungarian delegation, including János Kádár, visits Romania. They make explicit that Hungary has no territorial claims over Hungarian-speaking part of the country.
• 27 May – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev declares that Soviet troops will withdraw from Romania.
• 6 June – The start of a three-day trial of four students who organised a conference to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the crowning of Stephen the Great. They are found guilty and imprisoned until 1964.
• 21 July – In response to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Great National Assembly passes Decree 318, stating that contacting foreigners to declare Romania neutral carries the death penalty.
• 25 July – The last Soviet troops leave Romania, ending the Soviet occupation.
• 14 November – Romania establishes its first diplomatic relations at the embassy level with a sub-Saharan country, Guinea.
• Unknown – The last Csángós school is closed as part of the Romanianization of Western Moldavia.

Art and literature

• Ciulinii Bărăganului, a Franco-Romanian film directed by Louis Daquin and Gheorghe Vitanidis, based on a novel of the same title by Panait Istrati, was nominated for the Golden Palm award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.

Births

• 10 February – Olga Homeghi, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
• 9 March – Cornelia Catangă, lăutari musician (died 2021).
• 25 June – Gigi Becali, businessman and politician.
• 29 June – Oana Lungescu, journalist and NATO principal spokesperson.
• 4 July – Elena Horvat, rower, gold medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
• 23 August – Iosif Matula, politician and member of the European Parliament.
• 6 November – Elena Bondar, rower, bronze medal winner at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Deaths

• 7 January – Petru Groza, President since 1952 and Prime Minister between 1945 and 1952 (born 1884).
• 17 February – Natalie Bierle, film actress who used the pseudonym Tala Birell (born 1907).
• 26 May – Constantin Cantacuzino, aviator, the leading Romanian fighter ace in World War II (born 1905).
• 24 August –Veronica Antal, professed member of the Secular Franciscan Order, the first Romanian woman to be beatified, on 22 September 2018 (born 1935).
• 2 September – Iosif Capotă, physician who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters, executed at Gherla Prison (born 1912).
• 7 December – Constantin Brăiloiu, composer and ethnomusicologist (born 1893).

References

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2. Mastny, Vojtech; Byrne, Malcolm (2005). A Cardboard Castle?: An Inside History of the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991. Budapest: Central European University Press. p. 691. ISBN 978-6-15505-369-6.
3. Tucker, Spencer (2020). The Cold War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 669. ISBN 978-1-44086-076-8.
4. Kopyś, Tadeusz; Stanek., Tadeusz (2008). "The History of Hungarian Autonomy in Transylvania 1952-1968". Politeja. 10 (1): 178. JSTOR 24919299. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
5. Verona, Sergiu (1992). Military Occupation and Diplomacy: Soviet Troops in Romania, 1944–1958. Durham: Duke University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-82231-171-3.
6. Granville, Johanna (April 2008). ""If Hope Is Sin, Then We Are All Guilty": Romanian Students' Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution and Soviet Intervention, 1956–1958". The Carl Beck Papers in Russian & East European Studies (1905): 27. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
7. Deletan, Dennis (1998). Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965. New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-31221-904-8.
8. Boia, Eugene (2018). "The Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Romania, 1955-1958" (PDF). Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History: 20.
9. Giurescu, Constantin C.; Matei, Horia C.; Popa, Marcel; Alexandrescu, Ion; Chiper, Ioan (1974). Chronological History of Romania. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică Română. p. 477. OCLC 251025169.
10. Mandelbaum, Michael (1999). The New European Diasporas: National Minorities and Conflict in Eastern Europe. New York: Council on Foreign Relations. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-87609-257-6.
11. "Festival de Cannes: Ciulinii Bărăganului". www.festival-cannes.com. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
12. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Homeghi-Bularda". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 7 October 2015.
13. Buclu, Laura. "Cornelia Catanga, cântăreaţa de muzică lăutărească, a murit din cauza COVID-19" [Cornelia Catanga, singer of lăutari music, dies due to COVID-19] (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 13 February 2022.
14. In Romanian:https://adevarul.ro/locale/timisoara/cum-ajuns-familia-gigi-becali-albania-romania-s-au-mutat-casele-svabilor-deportati-urss-1_5c62cf3e445219c57e0dc816/index.html
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17. "Iosif Matula". European Parliament. Archived from the original on 22 May 2019.
18. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elena Bondar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015.
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20. Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2002). Silent Film Necrology. London: McFarland. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-78641-059-0.
21. Ilie, Cornel-Constantin (2008). Între Bellu și Montparnasse: Români celebri în fața morții [Between Bellu and Montparnasse: Famous Romanians in the Face of Death] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Historia. p. 31. ISBN 978-9-73178-119-8.
22. Stanciu, Simona (20 September 2018). "Ceremonie grandioasă pentru Veronica Antal, prima femeie din România pe care Biserica Catolică o va beatifica" [Grandiose ceremony for Veronica Antal, the first woman in Romania to be beatified by the Catholic Church]. Adevărul (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 21 September 2018.
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24. Taloș, Ion (2019). "Despre globalizarea etnomuzicologiei: Constantin Brăiloiu și Sanda Golopenția" [The globalization of ethnomusicology: Constantin Brăiloiu and Sanda Golopenția]. Steaua (in Romanian). 70 (4): 51.

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