** Hyacinth of Poland

** Barbórka, Miners ' Day in Poland

** The first night of Ivan Kupala Day ( Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine )

** Kinga of Poland

** Jadwiga of Poland

** International telephone system: landline connections to Latvia and Poland ; major international connections are to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway by submarine cable for further transmission by satellite

** Dukes of Greater Poland

** List of Prime Ministers of Poland

** The Most Holy Virgin Mary Queen of Poland

** Malbork, Poland, site of the Ordensburg Marienburg, formerly Marienburg in Westpreußen and during World War II, Nazi Stalag XX-B ( prisoner-of-war camp ) for enlisted men

** Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 ( Poland )

** Iraq War ( 2003 – 2011 ) – In 2003, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded and occupied Iraq.

** Nazi Germany invades Poland, Denmark, Norway, Benelux, and the French Third Republic from 1939 to 1941.

** Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941.

** Poland declares its independence from Russia.

** Poland regains independence after 123 years of partitions.

** Józef Piłsudski is appointed head of state of Poland.

** Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland ( b. 1427 )

** NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

** Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland ( d. 2010 )

** Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.

** At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a " peace front " comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war.

** The Kriegsmarine orders all German-flagged merchant ships to head to German ports immediately in anticipation of the invasion of Poland.

** Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig ( now Gdańsk, Poland ) is annexed to Nazi Germany.

** Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania / The Polish Open University

** Polish rulers

** List of Polish presidents

** Polish marka, Polish currency from 1917 to 1924

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** Radio ESKA ,-which plays international hits, along with Polish music.

** Radio Maryja-a radio station that is centered around religious observances, such as mass, and prayer, in Polish.

** Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman

** Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

** Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer

** Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper

** Rudolph Maté, Polish cinematographer ( b. 1898 )

** A new Polish government is declared in Western Galicia ( Central Europe ).

** Ewa Farna, Polish singer

** Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm, Polish born writer

** Jarosław Kaczyński, Polish Prime Minister ( 2006 – 2007 )

** Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress

** Joanna Pacula, Polish actress

** Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director

** Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician ( b. 1882 )

** Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer

** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.

** Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Security Police, sent a directive, the Schnellbrief, explaining that Jews living in towns and villages in the Polish occupation zones were to be transferred to ghettos, and Jewish councils – Judenräte – would be established to carry out the German authorities ’ orders.