Wałęsa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1983 · Event
With Solidarity outlawed, the electrician from Gdańsk wins the Peace Prize; fearing he would not be let back in, he sends his wife Danuta to collect it.
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More from Eastern Europe & the Balkans
- Revolutions of 1989 (1989)
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569)
- Union of Lublin (1569)
- Hungarian Revolution (1956)
- Poland regains independence (1918)
- Ottoman Balkans (1354)
- Cyril and Methodius mission to the Slavs (863)
- Founding of Czechoslovakia (1918)
Around 1983
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)