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2001 Jan Kott, Polish Critic
1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99 1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83 1994 Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102 1994 Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies 1994 Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88 1994 Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81 1994 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 1994 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84 1993 Reizl Bozyk, Polish/U.S. actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79 1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish president-in-exile 1979 - 1986, dies at 97 1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist and conductor, dies at 84 1993 Polish government of Suchocka falls 1993 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/U.S. pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100 1993 Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed 1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die 1993 Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (International Court of Justice), dies 1992 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80 1991 Andrzei Panufkin, Polish/British conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies 1991 Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies 1991 Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies 1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87 1989 Polish labor union granted legal status 1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government 1988 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Netherlands theologist/economist, dies at 77 1988 Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM 1987 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw 1986 Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89 1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski 1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders 1984 Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered 1984 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1983 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law 1982 Paul Godwin, Goldfein, Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80 1982 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76 1982 Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94 1982 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77 1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists 1981 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies 1981 Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski 1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity 1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity 1980 Polish government recognizes Solidarity 1980 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia 1980 Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers) 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II 1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station 1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed 1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91 1973 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81 1973 Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 72 1972 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator 1970 Polish uprising fails 1970 Polish government proclaims price rise 1970 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60 1970 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69 1970 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77 1970 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78 1969 Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series 1969 Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman 1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president 1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60 1967 Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39 1966 Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism 1965 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies 1963 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 1962 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62 1961 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies 1961 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78 1958 Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66 1958 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84 1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76 1957 Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77 1956 Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison 1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP 1956 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74 1955 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88 1953 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48 1953 Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski 1953 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62 1953 Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68 1950 Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations 1948 Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies 1948 W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party 1948 Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier 1946 Adam Michnik, Polish Editor 1946 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies 1945 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1945 Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets 1945 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen 1944 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands 1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem) 1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel 1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands 1944 Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy 1944 U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy 1944 Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan 1944 Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation 1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation 1944 Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy 1944 Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski 1943 Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983 1943 Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death 1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos 1943 Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos 1943 Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London 1943 Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn 1942 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist 1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis 1942 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec 1942 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp 1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72 1941 Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death 1941 Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at 80 1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation 1940 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67 1940 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain 1940 SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands 1940 Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains 1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile 1940 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74 1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews 1939 Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service 1939 Last Polish troops surrender 1939 Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender 1939 Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania 1939 Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated 1939 Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz 1939 Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor 1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54 1936 John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO 1936 Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power 1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1935 Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies 1934 "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies 1933 Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer, Die Teufel von Loudon 1932 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies 1932 Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Journalist 1928 Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60 1928 Gabriel Laub, Polish writer 1928 Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer, Giocosa 1927 Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher, Conversations with the Devil 1927 Gdanks and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor 1925 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70 1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1924 Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin 1924 Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66 1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms 1923 Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author 1923 Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90 1922 Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president 1922 Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Polish pianist, Chopin 1922 Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president 1922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns 1921 Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and writer, Utwory dramatyczne 1920 Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57 1920 Pope John Paul II, Polish Pope 1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev 1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews 1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov) 1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland 1918 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg 1918 Anna Held, Polish Entertainer 1917 Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57 1917 Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman 1914 Jan Kott, Polish Critic 1913 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers 1913 Edward Gierek, party leader, Polish CP 1912 Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer, Niekochana 1911 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy 1911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980 1911 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor, Galitzianer Cowboy 1910 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Netherlands theologist/economist 1909 Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68 1909 Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62 1909 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist and conductor, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra 1909 Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician 1908 Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter, Wiesenthal Center 1907 Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel 1907 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian, Stalin/Trotsky biography 1907 Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator 1906 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia 1906 Artur Balsam, Polish/U.S. pianist, Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein 1905 Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth 1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish 1905 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet, Zielona Ges 1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina 1902 Paul Godwin, Polish/Dutch violinist 1901 Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal 1901 Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier 1901 Julian Przybos, Polish poet, Sruby 1900 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham 1900 Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor 1899 Michal Kalecki, Polish economist 1899 Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master, Ballets Russes 1898 Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, Whom the God's Love 1898 Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer, Stolica 1897 Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupec, Polish/US actress, Madame Bovary 1895 Jankel Adler, Polish painter 1894 Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupiec, Polish/U.S. actress, Madame Dubarry 1894 Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist 1893 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher, Studia philosophica 1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general 1892 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist 1892 Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist 1892 Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant 1892 Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician 1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general, WW I, WW II 1891 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. painter/cubist sculptor 1891 Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter, La Souris Boiteuse 1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj 1889 Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer, Noce I Dnie 1887 Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist, Black Wings 1884 Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor, Meduza, Eros i Psyche 1884 Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist 1883 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies 1882 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player, openings theory 1882 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist, Polish Peasant in Europe 1881 Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal 1881 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter 1881 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player 1880 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44 1879 Alfred Korzybski, Polish Scientist 1878 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1876 Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82 1874 Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert 1872 Anna Held, Polish Entertainer 1870 Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist 1870 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer and conductor, St. Moniuszko 1868 Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist 1867 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM, 1944-47 1865 Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland 1857 Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist, Babinski reflex 1855 Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56 1850 Jean de Reszke, Polish tenor 1849 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39 1846 Kasimir F Badeni, Polish/Austrian premier of Cisleithanie 1846 Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated 1833 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57 1832 Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I 1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow 1821 Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda 1819 Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer 1817 Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies 1814 Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies 1813 Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle 1812 Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61 1810 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer 1809 Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies 1809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land 1793 Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer, Pan Jowiolski 1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist 1763 Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France 1750 Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister 1736 Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne 1733 Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig 1733 Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king 1725 French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski 1716 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom 1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king 1696 Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies 1683 Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski 1683 Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald 1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king 1668 Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France 1656 Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw 1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine 1640 Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1634 Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians 1612 Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76 1610 Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia 1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki 1598 Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies 1595 Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet 1577 Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory 1575 Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland 1574 Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland 1573 Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king 1570 Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits 1560 John a Lasco, John Laski, Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies 1558 Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies 1514 Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians 1484 Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25 1481 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV 1458 Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint 1079 Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered 992 Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies |
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