Lech Wałęsa
1943–present · Person
Polish trade unionist who led Solidarity; Poland's first popularly elected president (1990–1995).
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, People, Eastern Europe & the Balkans
Around 1943
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)