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| 1976 |
| | | Polish composer Henryk Górecki completes his Third Symphony | |
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| 1979 |
| | | John Paul II makes an emotional and influential return to Poland, the country of his birth | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Electrician Lech Walesa emerges as the leader of a strike in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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| 1980 |
| | | A trade union, Solidarnośc (Solidarity), is formed by strikers in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Lech Walesa is elected chairman of the newly formed Polish trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The Kremlin appoints a general, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as prime minister of Poland | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski imposes martial law and suspends Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) is declared illegal by the Polish government | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Polish union leader and activist Lech Walesa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's opera The Black Mask is premiered in Salzburg | |
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