On this Day, in 1945: the Red Army launched the Vistula–Oder Offensive
On January 12, 1945, the Red Army launched the massive Vistula–Oder Offensive into German-occupied Poland, which saw the Soviet forcesContinue Reading
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On January 12, 1945, the Red Army launched the massive Vistula–Oder Offensive into German-occupied Poland, which saw the Soviet forcesContinue Reading
On January 6, 1977, motivated by the arrest of members of the psychedelic band Plastic People of the Universe, theContinue Reading
On January 5, 1968, Slovak reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), andContinue Reading
On December 30, 1610, the gruesome crimes and serial murders of the Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory were uncovered by CountContinue Reading
On December 27, 1918, after a patriotic speech by the famous composer Ignacy Paderewski, an uprising broke out in PoznańContinue Reading
On December 25, 1000 (or possibly on January 1, 1001), the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Stephen I, assertedContinue Reading
On December 22, 1990, the leader of the Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, became Poland’s first freely elected president since 1926Continue Reading
On December 16, 1922, five days after taking office, the first president of the Republic of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz wasContinue Reading
On December 13, 1981, in a televised speech addressed to the entire nation, General Wojciech Jaruzelski announced the introduction of martialContinue Reading
On December 10, 1942, the Polish government-in-exile sent an official diplomatic note, signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Raczyński,Continue Reading
On December 6, 1956, political tension between Hungary and the Soviet Union boiled over during a hard-fought water polo OlympicContinue Reading
On December 2, 1805, the Grande Armée of Napoleon defeated a larger Russian and Austrian army led by Tsar AlexanderContinue Reading
On November 29, 1830, a group of conspirators led by a young cadet from the Warsaw officers’ school, Piotr Wysocki,Continue Reading
On November 24, 1227, the High Duke of Poland, Leszek the White, was assassinated in an ambush on a councilContinue Reading
On November 20, 1940, Hungarian Prime minister Pál Teleki signed the Tripartite Pact making Hungary the fourth power after Germany, ItalyContinue Reading