March 22: The day when Tora Vasilescu, one of the most loved actresses in Romania, was born
Tora Vasilescu was born in Constanța on March 22, 1951. The artist Goran Bregovic and the footballer Mirel Radoi were also born on March 22.
Tora Vasilescu, actress PHOTO: The truth
1933: Nazi Germany opened the first concentration camp, Dachau
The American troops who liberated the Dachau concentration camp at the end of the war were horrified by the horrors committed behind the barbed wire fences. Thousands of corpses and other testimonies of the crimes committed by the Nazis came to light.
The system of concentration camps was initiated in 1933, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, a follower of the ethnic cleansing supported by Hitler. From 1933 until the end of the Second World War, numerous concentration camps operated on the territory of Europe in which the systematic extermination of several million people was practiced.
The Dachau camp
Political opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Roma populations, but especially Jews from all the regions conquered by the Nazi army were targeted. Initially conceived as forced labor camps for party rivals, the camps became, especially after 1934, extermination camps based on ethnic and racial principles.
The entire system of extermination and dehumanization was thought up by Theodor Eicke, the commander of the first extermination camp, that of Dachau, established in 1933.
1950: Goran Bregović, musician, was born
Goran Bregovic was born in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), to a Croatian father and a Serbian mother. He started his musical career in 1969. He composed and performed music with strong Balkan and Gypsy influences, film music for his good friend, director Emir Kusturica. He composed songs for Cesaria Evora, Ofra Haza and Iggy Pop.
When he goes on stage, but not only, Goran Bregovic dresses in white. He spent most of his childhood at the Music School, studying the violin. Paradoxically, the educational institution decided to expel him for “lack of talent”. Shortly after his expulsion from school, his mother bought him a guitar. At the age of 16, he was abandoned by the woman who gave him life, remaining in the care of relatives.
Goran Bregovic PHOTO: Profimedia
Goran had to fend for himself since he was a teenager, when he started playing folk music in a bar in the town of Konjic. In 1971, Goran and another aspiring artist, Zoran Redzia, started playing in a band called Jutro (trans. “Good morning”). In this formula, the musician had a lot of shows and began to taste success to the full. On January 1, 1974, the band changed its name to Bijelo Dugme (“White Button”).
1951: Actress Tora Vasilescu was born
In 1975, the actress, who was born in Tulcea, graduated as head of promotion at the acting department of the “ILCaragiale” Theater and Cinematographic Art Institute and in the same year, received the ACIN award for the role of Maria in the film “Cursa” by Mircea Daneliuc.
She has received several awards over the years, including the UCIN Interpretation Award three times, the Award for the role in “Impossible Love” at Aceno D'Oro, the award for “Best Supporting Female Role” in “Red Rats”.
Tora Vasilescu
The actress Tora Vasilescu was requested by the most talented directors to play in their films. The artist's filmography includes films such as: “The Race”, “Glory does not sing”, “Breakdown”, “The House between the Fields”, “The Cruise”, “The Winner”, “To die wounded for love of life”, “The Wasp's Nest”, “The Bat Blooms for the Second Time”, “The Red Rats”, “The Most Beloved of the Earthlings”, “And everything was nothing…”, “Codin and Chira Chiralina”, “The ashes of the bird in the dream”, “Kilometer 36”, “Beech Forest”, “Glissando”, “Freshman's Spring”, “The Last Turns Out the Light”, “Occident”, “The Seed's Choice”, “Keep Your Eyes on Happiness”, “Sickening Connections”, “Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mythical?”.
For her role in the film QED, she received a Gopo Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Feature Film.
1977: Nicolae Ceaușescu decided on the “urban renewal” of Bucharest
The earthquake produced in the evening of March 4, 1977 in Romania at 21:00 local time was the worst earthquake of the post-war period.
The event, having its epicenter in the seismogenic region of Vrancea, caused great destruction in the south and east of the country, especially in Bucharest, as well as a large number of victims.
In Romania, the worst consequences were recorded in the southern part of the country, especially in the city of Bucharest, where 32 buildings were destroyed: several old buildings built in the pre-war period but also 3 new buildings.
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Nicolae Ceaușescu, after the earthquake of March 4, 1977
As a result of the earthquake, 1,570 people died, and over 11,000 others were injured.
Also, numerous industrial targets were severely affected.
Fires caused by gas explosions and other sources of open fire have been reported.
1981: The footballer Mirel Rădoi was born
His career as a footballer was spent in the football team FC Steaua Bucharest, and after his retirement he became sports manager of the national football team of Romania, U21. Rădoi has three Romanian championship trophies in his record, which he won when he was part of the Steaua Bucharest team. The footballer was also the captain of the Ghencea team (at the time) and played in the UEFA Champions League and the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Mirel Rădoi also played for the Romanian national team and participated in the 2008 European Championship.
Mirel Radoi
Mirel Rădoi won the title of “Footballer of the Year in the Professional League of Saudi Arabia” in 2010, and came second as “Romanian Footballer of the Year” in 2005. He started his football career at a young age, at 8 years old. According to fanatik.ro, Mirel Rădoi was first a goalkeeper, and then a defender. The first team Rădoi played for was FC Drobeta-Turnu Severin. There he was noticed by the coach of the Extensiv Craiova team, Sorin Cârțu, and two weeks later he signed a contract for the Craiova team. He arrived at Steaua Bucharest after only five months, although Extensiv Craiova had been relegated to Division C that season. The shareholders of Stella paid 100,000 dollars for Radoi.
2002: Margaret Teacher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, announces her retirement from public life
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (13 October 1925, Grantham, England, United Kingdom – 8 April 2013, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) was a British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.
Baroness Thatcher was the first woman elected as Prime Minister or leader of a major political party in the United Kingdom, as well as the first British Prime Minister elected three times consecutively (1979, 1983 and 1987), a political record equaled only by Tony Blair in 2005.
March 17: Florin Răducioiu was born, the only Romanian footballer who played in all five major European championships
He became a member of the British Parliament in 1959.
He is one of the most important British political figures, his tenure being the longest continuous term in British political history.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
She is also one of the most controversial political figures, being the first female prime minister in the entire history of Europe.
Along with Churchill, Thatcher shares the honor of having a bronze statue in the lobby of the Houses of Parliament.
In 2011 her life was screened in a very successful film, Doamna de fier (The Iron Lady), with Meryl Streep as the protagonist, a role for which she was declared, in 2012, “best actress” at the Golden Globes, at the BAFTA Awards and at the Oscars.
Her life was also screened in 2020 in the hit series The Crown on Netflix, where Gillian Anderson was the protagonist in season 4.
2016: The terrorist attacks in Brussels
On March 22, 2016, two suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in the airport terminal, initially accompanied by a third terrorist who fled and was captured two weeks later.
Attacks in Brussels
Then, at 09:11 local time, another jihadist launched a suicide attack in Maelbeek metro station.
The attacks left 32 dead and over 320 injured.
