With the US presidential elections coming up, let’s cast our look back in time to the first visit by an American president to Romania: Richard Nixon, at the beginning of August 1969, less than two weeks after the moon landing. This was also the first state visit by an American president to a socialist country.
British physicist and 1950-Nobel Prize in Physics winner C. F. Powell travelled to Romania in 1964 to attend the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientific Workers hosted that year by Bucharest.
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong performs in Romania as part of his historic 1965 East European tour.
The Institute for the History of Religions displays previously unseen Eliade manuscripts
