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/US actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79
1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), 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 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/Neth 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/US 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 HR in World Series
1969 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
1969 Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman
1968 Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president
1967 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng 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/Russ/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 Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies
1946 Adam Michnik, Polish Editor
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 Neth
1944 British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)
1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1944 Polish forces free Terneuzen Neth
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 gen 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 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
1942 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist
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 Neth
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/Neth 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 orch
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/US 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 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author, Ferdydurke, Pornography
1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina
1902 Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], 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/US 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/US 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, [Jan Mieczyslaw], 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 lt-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/PM (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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