Teacher Ion Mihalache, a major Romanian politician before 1945, represented the peasant middle class. He was a man of integrity, defender of conservative Romanian peasant values, but was also a militant for modernization and prosperity for all, especially the most disadvantaged. Ion Mihalache was born on March 3, 1882, in Topoloveni, a village 90 km northwest of Bucharest. He came from a peasant family, and loved education, so he became a teacher at19 years of age, in 1901. When Romania joined the war, in 1916, he volunteered as an officer commanding a company on the front lines. He took part in the military campaigns in 1916-1917, and was decorated with the Michael the Brave order for his abilities as a commander. In the tumultuous years after the war, he took part in organizing the referendum by which the Romanian population of Bessarabia voted to unite with Romania in 1918. After the war, he went into politics and was a founder of the National Peasant Party, to defend the
1859 – Death of prose writer, memorialist Alecu Russo (b. 17 mart. 1819)
1861 – Association for the Culture of Romanian People of Maramures is founded in Sighet
1867 – Austro-Hungarian Compromise creates dualist empire, with Transylvania forcibly annexed to Hungary
1887 – Birth of General Corneliu Dragalina (d. July 11, 1949)
1889 – Foreign Minister P.P. Carp asks Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Telegraph and Post to provide an office for the Telegraph Agency of Romania, the country’s first news agency – now AGERPRES
1896 – Birth of philosopher Nicolae Bagdasar, corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (d. April 21, 1971)
1925 – Romania – Chile establish relationships at legacy level
1939 – Death of mathematician Gheorghe Titeica, member of the Romanian Academy (b. Oct. 4, 1873)
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