• Source: 1942 in Romania
    • Events from the year 1942 in Romania. The year was dominated by the Second World War.


      Incumbents


      King: Michael I of Romania.
      Prime Minister: Ion Antonescu.


      Events


      24 January – A record temperature of −38.5 °C (−37.3 °F) is recorded at Bod, Brașov.
      6 June – A state of war is declared between Romania and the United States.
      1 July – Romanian and German troops capture the fortress at Sevastopol following a siege that had lasted 8 months.
      7 September – Romanian and German troops capture Novorossiysk in the Battle of the Caucasus.
      2 November – Soldiers of the Vânători de munte under the command of general Ioan Dumitrache capture Nalchik, the farthest advance by the Axis powers into the Caucasus.
      19 November – The Romania Third and Fourth Armies come under attack by the Soviet Red Army at the Battle of Stalingrad.
      1 December – The Soviet cruiser Voroshilov and destroyer Soobrazitelny shell Snake Island, damaging the radio station, barracks and lighthouse on the island, but fail to inflict significant losses.


      Births


      5 January – Alexandru Ioan Lupaș, mathematician (died 2007).
      9 March – Ion Caramitru, stage and film actor, stage director, and political figure (died 2021).
      25 March – Otilia Valeria Coman (pen name Ana Blandiana), poet.
      25 March – Basarab Nicolescu, theoretical physicist.
      27 March – Olga Bucătaru, film and stage actress (died 2020).
      2 April – Gabriela Adameșteanu, novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and translator.
      23 May – Gabriel Liiceanu, philosopher.
      28 May – Păun Otiman, agronomist, politician, member of the Romanian Academy.
      22 September – Alexandru Moisuc, agricultural scientist.
      4 November – Edward Luttwak, American military strategist and author.


      Deaths


      21 March – Olha Kobylianska, modernist writer and feminist (born 1863).
      21 November – Alexandru Pastia, colonel, killed in action at the Battle of Stalingrad (born 1893).
      24 November – Ioan Sion, major general, killed in action at the Battle of Stalingrad (born 1890).
      16 December – Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, poet murdered in the Holocaust (born 1924).


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