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Marianna KAMINSKI

Marianna KAMINSKI

Female 1866 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1866 
  • 19 Sep 1866: Texas cotton planters meet and organize the Waverly Emigration Society.
1867 
  • 23 Apr 1867: Meyer Levy and twenty-nine Polish families arrive in Galveston and head to New Waverly, Texas.
1875 
  • 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
1876 
  • 4 Oct 1876: Texas A&M opens with 40 students and a faculty of six men.
1895 
  • 14 Feb 1895: A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
1899 
  • 20 Jun 1899: A severe flood on the Brazos River in Texas kills nearly 300.
1900 
  • 8 Sep 1900: The Great Galveston Storm destroys half the city and kills thousands.
1909 
  • 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
1914 
  • 1914: World War I begins
10 1918 
  • 28 Feb 1918: Texas ratifies the Prohibition Amendment.
  • 7 Oct 1918: Poland declares independence
  • 11 Nov 1918: World War I ends.
11 1920 
  • 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
12 1929 
  • 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
13 1930 
  • 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
14 1939 
  • 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
15 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
16 1945 
  • 8 May 1945: V.E. Day, World War II is over in Europe. Poland became a Soviet-dependent country with a Communist government
17 1948 
  • 25 Jan 1948: The first edition of the Polish American Journal printed entirely in the English language
18 1961 
  • 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
19 1963 
  • 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
20 1969 
  • 20 Jul 1969: Apollo II lands on the moon.






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