On May 12, 1970, General Władysław Anders, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in 1944-1945, died in exile in London.
On 4 July 1928, the founding congress of the Sybiraks' Association was held at the Warsaw University of Technology.
On 23 July 1920, the first ship from Vladivostok with Polish children evacuated from Siberia arrived in Tsuruga, Japan. By 1922, a total of more than 700 kids had arrived in the Land of the Cherry Blossom. Their first stops were the cities of Tsuruga and Osaka.
Volunteer Polish units in Siberia began to organise as early as the turn of 1917/1918.
On December 5, 1867, Józef Piłsudski was born at the manor house in Zułów.
“Poles! The hour of vengeance has come. Today die or prevail! Let us go, and let your breasts be Thermopylae for your enemies!”
