aug 31, 1980 - Future first democratically elected president of Lech Walesa forms Solidarnosc (Solidaryt) - a party that would, in 1989, lead to the end of Communism in Poland
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"Lech Walesa [was] the young Polish electrician who stood outside the locked gate of the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk one day in August 1980 – with the pope’s picture nearby – to announce the formation of Solidarnosc, the first independent trade union ever in a Marxist-Leninist country" (Gaddis 2006, p. 197)Added to timeline:
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aug 31, 1980
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~ 45 years ago