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  1901 - 1959  (58 years)
	
		
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| 1  | 1909  | - 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
 
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| 3  | 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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| 4  | 1920  | - 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
 
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| 5  | 1929  | - 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
 
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| 6  | 1930  | - 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
 
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| 7  | 1939  | - 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
 
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| 8  | 1941  | - 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
 
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| 9  | 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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| 10  | 1948  | - 25 Jan 1948: The first edition of the Polish American Journal printed entirely in the English language
 
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