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Wallace NOWAK

Male 1876 - 1937  (60 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
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
1918 
  • 28 Feb 1918: Texas ratifies the Prohibition Amendment.
  • 7 Oct 1918: Poland declares independence
  • 11 Nov 1918: World War I ends.
1920 
  • 18 May 1920: Karol Jozef Wojtyla, later to become Pope John Paul II, is born in Wadowice, Poland.
1929 
  • 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
10 1930 
  • 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia






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