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Polish Texans Website
Genealogy Database
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 1905 - 1963 (57 years)
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| 1 | 1909 | - 1909: Stefan Nesterowicz visits the major Polish communities in Texas.
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| 2 | 1914 | |
| 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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| 11 | 1961 | - 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
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| 12 | 1963 | - 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
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