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John LIDKA

John LIDKA

Male 1872 -

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   Date  Event(s)
1875 
  • 1875: Joseph Bartula becomes the first Polish immigrant to settle in Bremond, Texas
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.
10 1929 
  • 29 Oct 1929: "Black Tuesday". The stock market crashes and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
11 1930 
  • 1930: Unsuccessful Polish rebellion against Russia
12 1939 
  • 1939: Germany and the Soviet Union invade and partition Poland
13 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: The bombing of Pearl Harbor plunges the U.S. into World War II.
14 1945 
  • 8 May 1945: V.E. Day, World War II is over in Europe. Poland became a Soviet-dependent country with a Communist government
15 1948 
  • 25 Jan 1948: The first edition of the Polish American Journal printed entirely in the English language
16 1961 
  • 10 Sep 1961: Hurricane Carla strikes the upper Texas coast.
17 1963 
  • 22 Nov 1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
18 1969 
  • 20 Jul 1969: Apollo II lands on the moon.
19 1978 
  • 16 Oct 1978: Karol Wojtyla is elected as the 264th pope of the Catholic Church, the first Polish pope ever.
20 1979 
  • 2 Jun 1979: John Paul II visits Poland for the first time as pope.
21 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.
22 1982 
  • 1982: Polish Genealogical Society of Texas is founded.






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