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Date |
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| 1 | 1861 | - 12 Apr 1861: The United States Civil War begins
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| 2 | 1863 | - 1863: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
- 1 Jan 1863: The Confederates win the Battle of Galveston.
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| 3 | 1865 | - 14 Apr 1865: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
- May 1865: The Civil War ends
- 19 Jun 1865: Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrives in Galveston with word that slavery has been abolished.
- 18 Dec 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified; slavery is abolished.
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| 4 | 1866 | - 19 Sep 1866: Texas cotton planters meet and organize the Waverly Emigration Society.
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| 5 | 1867 | - 23 Apr 1867: Meyer Levy and twenty-nine Polish families arrive in Galveston and head to New Waverly, Texas.
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| 6 | 1875 | - 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
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| 7 | 1876 | - 4 Oct 1876: Texas A&M opens with 40 students and a faculty of six men.
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| 8 | 1895 | - 14 Feb 1895: A rare Gulf Coast snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow on the Houston-Galveston area.
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| 9 | 1899 | - 20 Jun 1899: A severe flood on the Brazos River in Texas kills nearly 300.
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| 10 | 1900 | - 8 Sep 1900: The Great Galveston Storm destroys half the city and kills thousands.
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| 11 | 1909 | - 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
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| 12 | 1914 | |
| 13 | 1918 | - 28 Feb 1918: Texas ratifies the Prohibition Amendment.
- 7 Oct 1918: Poland declares independence
- 11 Nov 1918: World War I ends.
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| 14 | 1920 | - 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
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| 15 | 1929 | - 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
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| 16 | 1930 | - 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
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| 17 | 1939 | - 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
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| 18 | 1941 | - 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
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| 19 | 1945 | - 8 May 1945: V.E. Day, World War II is over in Europe. Poland became a Soviet-dependent country with a Communist government
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| 20 | 1948 | - 25 Jan 1948: The first edition of the Polish American Journal printed entirely in the English language
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| 21 | 1961 | - 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
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| 22 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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| 23 | 1969 | - 20 Jul 1969: Apollo II lands on the moon.
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| 24 | 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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| 25 | 1979 | - 2 Jun 1979: John Paul II visits Poland for the first time as pope.
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| 26 | 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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| 27 | 1982 | - 1982: Polish Genealogical Society of Texas is founded.
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| 28 | 1983 | - 18 Aug 1983: Alicia, the most expensive hurricane in U.S. history, hits Galveston and Houston.
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| 29 | 1987 | - Sep 1987: Polish descendants from Panna Maria, Texas greet Pope John Paul II during his visit to San Antonio.
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| 30 | 1989 | - 1989: Poland became a fully independent country
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| 31 | 1990 | - 22 Dec 1990: Lech Walesa takes the oath of office as Poland's first popularly elected president.
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1906 - 1990 (83 years)