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Polish Texans Website
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 1961 - 1981 (19 years)
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| 1 | 1961 | - 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
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| 2 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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| 3 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Apollo II lands on the moon.
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| 4 | 1978 | - 16 Oct 1978: Karol Wojtyla is elected as the 264th pope of the Catholic Church, the first Polish pope ever.
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| 5 | 1979 | - 2 Jun 1979: John Paul II visits Poland for the first time as pope.
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| 6 | 1980 | - 14 Aug 1980: Polish workers, led by Lech Walesa, begin a 17-day strike at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, resulting in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
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