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2011 Event - In Poland, the Polish People's Party coalition becomes the first government to be reelected since Poland transitioned to democracy in 1989

2010 Event - The transcript of the flight data recorders from the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash that killed 96 Polish officials and intellectuals is published

2010 Event - Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Acting President of Poland after a plane carrying President Lech Kaczynski and top Polish officials crashes, leaving no survivors

2001 Death - Jan Kott, Polish Critic

1996 Death - Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99

1994 Death - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at 83

1994 Death - Stanislaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major (WW II), dies at 102

1994 Death - Sjlomo Goren, Polish/Israeli supreme rabbi, dies

1994 Death - Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist, dies at 88

1994 Death - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81

1994 Death - Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74

1994 Death - Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer, dies at 84

1993 Death - Reizl Bozyk, Polish/U.S. actress (Crossing Delancey), dies at 79

1993 Death - Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish president-in-exile 1979 - 1986, dies at 97

1993 Death - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist and conductor, dies at 84

1993 Event - Polish government of Suchocka falls

1993 Death - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/U.S. pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100

1993 Event - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed

1993 Event - Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die

1993 Death - Manfred Lachs, Polish lawyer (International Court of Justice), dies

1992 Death - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster, dies at 80

1991 Death - Andrzei Panufkin, Polish/British conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies

1991 Death - Jan J Lipski, chairman (Polish Socialist Party)/writer, dies

1991 Death - Josef Lipski, Polish politician, dies

1991 Death - Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87

1989 Event - Polish labor union granted legal status

1989 Event - Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government

1988 Death - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Netherlands theologist/economist, dies at 77

1988 Event - Polish Communist Party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM

1987 Event - 183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw

1986 Death - Alexandre Tansman, Polish composer (Dyptique), dies at 89

1985 Event - French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski

1985 Event - Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders

1984 Death - Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered

1984 Death - Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician

1983 Event - Polish government ends 19 months of martial law

1982 Death - Paul Godwin, Goldfein, Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80

1982 Event - Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa freed

1982 Event - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland

1982 Death - Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76

1982 Death - Marie Rambert, Cyviam Ramberg, Polish/British ballerina, dies at 94

1982 Death - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77

1981 Event - Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists

1981 Death - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies

1981 Event - Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski

1980 Event - Polish government recognizes Solidarity

1980 Event - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

1980 Event - Polish government recognizes Solidarity

1980 Event - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia

1980 Event - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers)

1978 Event - Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

1978 Event - Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station

1974 Event - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed

1974 Death - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91

1973 Death - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. art critic sculptor, dies at 81

1973 Death - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 72

1972 Death - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1970 Event - Polish uprising fails

1970 Event - Polish government proclaims price rise

1970 Death - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime (1956-68), dies at 60

1970 Death - Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Poki my Zyjemy), dies at 69

1970 Death - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica), dies at 77

1970 Death - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II), dies at 78

1969 Event - 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 Death - Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman

1969 Death - Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64

1968 Event - Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president

1967 Death - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60

1967 Death - Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (See You Tommorrow), dies at 39

1966 Event - Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism

1965 Death - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies

1963 Death - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64

1962 Death - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62

1961 Death - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies

1961 Death - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78

1958 Death - Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor/composer, dies at 66

1958 Death - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84

1958 Death - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76

1957 Death - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77

1956 Event - Polish communist Gomulka freed from prison

1956 Event - E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st secretary of Polish CP

1956 Death - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player, dies at 74

1955 Death - Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish premier (1944-47), dies at 88

1953 Death - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges), dies at 48

1953 Event - Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski

1953 Death - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62

1953 Death - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor (Casanova), dies at 68

1950 Event - Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations

1948 Death - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal, dies

1948 Event - W Gomulka deposed as general secretary of Polish Worker's party

1948 Death - Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

1946 Birthday - Adam Michnik, Polish Editor

1946 Death - Morris Hirshfield, Polish/US painter, dies

1945 Death - Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician

1945 Event - Polish Provisional Government of National Unity set up by Soviets

1945 Event - 1st Polish armour brigade occupies Wilhelmshafen

1944 Event - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands

1944 Event - British and Polish paratroopers evacuate Oosterbeek (Arnhem)

1944 Event - Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel

1944 Event - Polish forces free Terneuzen, Netherlands

1944 Event - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy

1944 Event - U.S. 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy

1944 Event - Canada/Polish troops occupy Cramesnil/Secqueville/Cintheaux/St-Aignan

1944 Event - Canada/Polish offensive direction Falaise: Total Cooperation

1944 Event - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation

1944 Event - Polish troops under General Anders occupy Ancona Italy

1944 Event - Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy

1944 Event - Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski

1943 Birthday - Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983

1943 Death - Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death

1943 Event - Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos

1943 Event - Heinrich Himmler orders liquidation of Polish ghettos

1943 Event - Soviet Union breaks contact with Polish government exiled in London

1943 Event - Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn

1942 Death - Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist

1942 Event - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis

1942 Death - Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist

1942 Event - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec

1942 Event - 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp

1942 Event - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported

1942 Death - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/musicologist/conductor, dies at 72

1941 Event - Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death

1941 Death - Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish statesman pianist, dies in New York at 80

1941 Event - Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation

1940 Death - Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67

1940 Event - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain

1940 Event - SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands

1940 Event - Nazi's forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains

1940 Event - Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile

1940 Death - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74

1939 Event - SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews

1939 Event - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service

1939 Event - Last Polish troops surrender

1939 Event - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender

1939 Event - Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania

1939 Event - Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated

1939 Event - Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz

1939 Event - Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor

1937 Death - Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54

1936 Birthday - John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO

1936 Event - Polish parliament gives President Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power

1935 Death - Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist

1935 Death - Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies

1934 Death - "Madame" Marie Curie-Sklodovska, Polish/French chemist, dies

1933 Birthday - Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer, Die Teufel von Loudon

1932 Death - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies

1932 Birthday - Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish Journalist

1928 Death - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist, dies at 60

1928 Birthday - Gabriel Laub, Polish writer

1928 Birthday - Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer, Giocosa

1927 Birthday - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher, Conversations with the Devil

1927 Event - Gdanks and Polish accord concerning traffic through Polish corridor

1925 Death - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70

1925 Event - Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office

1924 Birthday - Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin

1924 Death - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66

1923 Event - Polish government of Grabski, forms

1923 Birthday - Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author

1923 Birthday - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/president, 1989-90

1922 Event - Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president

1922 Birthday - Halina Czerny-Stefanska, Polish pianist, Chopin

1922 Event - Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president

1922 Event - Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns

1921 Birthday - Tadeusz Rozewicz, Polish poet and writer, Utwory dramatyczne

1920 Death - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57

1920 Birthday - Pope John Paul II, Polish Pope

1920 Event - Polish troops occupy Kiev

1920 Event - Polish troops attack Ukraine

1919 Event - Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1919 Event - Polish Army executes 35 young Jews

1918 Event - Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)

1918 Event - Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland

1918 Event - Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg

1918 Death - Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

1917 Death - Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish doc/linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57

1917 Birthday - Leonard Chess, Polish Businessman

1914 Birthday - Jan Kott, Polish Critic

1913 Event - Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers

1913 Birthday - Edward Gierek, party leader, Polish CP

1912 Birthday - Adolf Rudnicki, Polish writer, Niekochana

1911 Birthday - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy

1911 Birthday - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980

1911 Birthday - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor, Galitzianer Cowboy

1910 Birthday - Friedrich Weinreb, Polish/Netherlands theologist/economist

1909 Birthday - Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Foreign Affairs, 1956-68

1909 Death - Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62

1909 Birthday - Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist and conductor, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

1909 Birthday - Stanislaw Ulam, Polish Mathematician

1908 Birthday - Simon Wiesenthal, Polish/Austrian nazi hunter, Wiesenthal Center

1907 Birthday - Roman Palester, Polish composer: The Weichsel

1907 Birthday - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian, Stalin/Trotsky biography

1907 Birthday - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1906 Event - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia

1906 Birthday - Artur Balsam, Polish/U.S. pianist, Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein

1905 Birthday - Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth

1905 Event - Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish

1905 Birthday - Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet, Zielona Ges

1904 Birthday - Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina

1902 Birthday - Paul Godwin, Polish/Dutch violinist

1901 Birthday - Stefan Wyszynski, Polish cardinal

1901 Birthday - Witold Pilecki, Polish Soldier

1901 Birthday - Julian Przybos, Polish poet, Sruby

1900 Birthday - Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham

1900 Birthday - Paul Klecki/Kletzki, Polish violinist, composer and conductor

1899 Birthday - Michal Kalecki, Polish economist

1899 Birthday - Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master, Ballets Russes

1898 Birthday - Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist, Whom the God's Love

1898 Birthday - Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish writer, Stolica

1897 Birthday - Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupec, Polish/US actress, Madame Bovary

1895 Birthday - Jankel Adler, Polish painter

1894 Birthday - Pola Negri, Barbara A Chalupiec, Polish/U.S. actress, Madame Dubarry

1894 Birthday - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist

1893 Birthday - Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher, Studia philosophica

1892 Birthday - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general

1892 Birthday - Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist

1892 Birthday - Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist

1892 Birthday - Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant

1892 Birthday - Stefan Banach, Polish Mathematician

1892 Birthday - Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general, WW I, WW II

1891 Birthday - Jacques Lipchitz, Polish/French/U.S. painter/cubist sculptor

1891 Birthday - Moise Kisling, Polish/French painter, La Souris Boiteuse

1891 Birthday - Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj

1889 Birthday - Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer, Noce I Dnie

1887 Birthday - Savielly [Xavier] G Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player

1885 Birthday - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist, Black Wings

1884 Birthday - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer and conductor, Meduza, Eros i Psyche

1884 Birthday - Bronislaw Malinowski, Polish Scientist

1883 Death - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright (Wanda), dies

1882 Birthday - Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player, openings theory

1882 Birthday - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist, Polish Peasant in Europe

1881 Birthday - Augustyn Hlond, Polish cardinal

1881 Birthday - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter

1881 Birthday - Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player

1880 Death - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44

1879 Birthday - Alfred Korzybski, Polish Scientist

1878 Birthday - Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist

1876 Death - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82

1874 Birthday - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert

1872 Birthday - Anna Held, Polish Entertainer

1870 Birthday - Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist

1870 Birthday - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer and conductor, St. Moniuszko

1868 Birthday - Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist

1867 Birthday - Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM, 1944-47

1865 Birthday - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet, Young Poland

1857 Birthday - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist, Babinski reflex

1855 Death - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56

1850 Birthday - Jean de Reszke, Polish tenor

1849 Death - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39

1846 Birthday - Kasimir F Badeni, Polish/Austrian premier of Cisleithanie

1846 Event - Polish revolutionaries march on Cracow, but are defeated

1833 Death - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57

1832 Event - Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Czar Nicholas I

1831 Event - Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow

1821 Birthday - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter, poet and playwright, Wanda

1819 Birthday - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer

1817 Death - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies

1814 Death - Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies

1813 Death - Josef Poniatovski, Polish gen/marshal of France, dies in battle

1812 Death - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61

1810 Birthday - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer

1809 Death - Ignacy Potocki, Polish Foreign Minister (constitution), dies

1809 Birthday - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land

1793 Birthday - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer, Pan Jowiolski

1777 Birthday - Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist

1763 Birthday - Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France

1750 Birthday - Ignacy Potocki, Polish foreign minister

1736 Event - Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne

1733 Event - Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig

1733 Event - Polish Landowners select Stanislaw Lesczynski king

1725 Event - French King Louis XV marries Polish princess Mary Lesczynski

1716 Event - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom

1697 Event - Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king

1696 Death - Waclaw Potocki, Polish poet (Wojna Chocimska), dies

1683 Event - Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski

1683 Event - Expelled Polish and Lotharings reach Wienerwald

1669 Event - Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king

1668 Event - Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France

1656 Event - Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw

1648 Event - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine

1640 Death - Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45

1634 Event - Battle at Smolensk: Polish King Wladyslaw IV beats Russians

1634 Event - Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians

1612 Death - Piotr Skarga, Polish theology/Prime Minister (Sanctity of Life), dies at 76

1610 Event - Polish King Wladyslaw crowned king of Russia

1610 Event - Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki

1598 Death - Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies

1595 Birthday - Matthias C Sarbiewski, Sarbievius, Polish jesuit/poet

1577 Event - Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory

1575 Event - Polish Parliament selects Istvan Bathory as king of Poland

1574 Event - Polish King Hendrik of Anjou secretly leaves Poland

1573 Event - Polish Parliament selects duke of Anjou as king

1570 Event - Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits

1560 Death - John a Lasco, John Laski, Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies

1558 Death - Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies

1514 Event - Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians

1484 Death - Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25

1481 Event - 2 Latvian monarchs executed for conspiracy to Polish king Kazimierz IV

1458 Birthday - Kazimierz de Saint, Polish ruler/saint

1079 Death - Stanislaus, Polish bishop of Cracow, murdered

992 Death - Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies













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