1951 in Romania

Events from the year 1951 in Romania. The year saw the BÃÂrÃÂgan deportations.

Incumbents

30 March Ã¢ÂÂ The Securitate is reorganised under the name DirecÃÂia GeneralÃÂ a SecuritÃÂÃÂii Statului (DGSS).
18 June Ã¢ÂÂ The BÃÂrÃÂgan deportations, during which 44,000 residents from CaraÃÂ-Severin, MehedinÃÂi, and TimiÃÂ counties are deported. Of those, 2,000 die.
20 October Ã¢ÂÂ The Frederic and Cecilia CuÃÂescu-Storck Art Museum is opened as a public gallery.
15 December Ã¢ÂÂ The first Five-Year Plan (1951Ã¢ÂÂ1955) is adopted by the Great National Assembly; the main objective of the plan is the construction of the DanubeÃ¢ÂÂBlack Sea Canal.

14 January Ã¢ÂÂ FiÃÂa Rafira, middle-distance runner, medal winner at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
22 July Ã¢ÂÂ Dan Ilie Ciobotea, the future Patriarch Daniel of Romania.
1 September Ã¢ÂÂ Nicu CeauÃÂescu, physicist and communist politician (died 1996).
4 November Ã¢ÂÂ Traian BÃÂsescu, politician and former President of Romania.

14 January Ã¢ÂÂ Tancred Constantinescu, engineer and politician, died at Sighet Prison (born 1878).
15 March Ã¢ÂÂ Gheorghe TaÃÂcÃÂ, economist, lawyer, academic, diplomat, and politician; a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, he died at Sighet Prison (born 1875).
19 April Ã¢ÂÂ Ion Manolescu-Strunga, politician, died at Sighet Prison (born 1889).
22 May Ã¢ÂÂ Istrate Micescu, lawyer, died in Aiud Prison (born 1881).
18 July Ã¢ÂÂ Toma ArnÃÂuÃÂoiu, officer who led a group of anti-communist resistance fighters from 1949 to 1958, executed at Jilava Prison (born 1921).
10 December Ã¢ÂÂ Anton Durcovici, bishop of IaÃÂi in the Roman Catholic Church and martyr, he died at Sighet Prison and was beatified on 17 May 2014 (born 1888).