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Leonard F. MUSHINSKI

Leonard F. MUSHINSKI

Male 1924 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1929 
  • 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
1930 
  • 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
1939 
  • 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
1945 
  • 8 May 1945: V.E. Day, World War II is over in Europe. Poland became a Soviet-dependent country with a Communist government
1948 
  • 25 Jan 1948: The first edition of the Polish American Journal printed entirely in the English language
1961 
  • 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
1963 
  • 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
1969 
  • 20 Jul 1969: Apollo II lands on the moon.
10 1978 
  • 16 Oct 1978: Karol Wojtyla is elected as the 264th pope of the Catholic Church, the first Polish pope ever.
11 1979 
  • 2 Jun 1979: John Paul II visits Poland for the first time as pope.
12 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.
13 1982 
  • 1982: Polish Genealogical Society of Texas is founded.
14 1983 
  • 18 Aug 1983: Alicia, the most expensive hurricane in U.S. history, hits Galveston and Houston.
15 1987 
  • Sep 1987: Polish descendants from Panna Maria, Texas greet Pope John Paul II during his visit to San Antonio.
16 1989 
  • 1989: Poland became a fully independent country
17 1990 
  • 22 Dec 1990: Lech Walesa takes the oath of office as Poland's first popularly elected president.
18 2004 
  • 2004: Poland became a part of the European Union
19 2005 
  • 2 Apr 2005: Pope John Paul II dies at 84.






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