6 September 6 – By Law nr. 5, the 58 counties (județe) — including the 424 plăși and 6,276 rural and urban communes — were abolished, being replaced by 28 regions, composed of 177 raions, 148 cities and towns, and 4,052 communes.
25 May – Nicolae Ciupercă, lieutenant general who served in both world wars and was Minister of War from 1938 to 1939, anti-communist resistance leader, who died in Văcărești Prison (born 1882).[19]
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