Mom: Felicja (Kaminski) Walesa
Marriage: Miroslawa “Danuta” (Golos) Walesa (1969-present)
Kids: Bogdan, Slawek, Przemek, Jarek, Magdalena, Ania, Maria Wiktoria and Brygidka
Army service: Military, Corporal, 1965-1967
Faith: Roman Catholic
Different Details
His father was imprisoned in a Nazi focus camp.
Timeline
1961-1965 – Works as a automotive mechanic.
1965-1967 – Serves within the Polish Military.
1967 – Begins working as an electrician on the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk.
1970 – Throughout strikes protesting the rise of meals costs, 45 shipyard staff are killed. Walesa is without doubt one of the leaders of the strike.
1976 – Is fired for his political actions.
1978 – Works with different activists to kind free commerce unions.
August 1980 – Leads a strike within the Gdansk shipyard, which spreads throughout the nation. The employees win the best to arrange their very own union.
September 1980 – The unbiased commerce union Solidarity is shaped.
December 1981 – Walesa is arrested. Martial legislation is imposed throughout the nation.
October 1982 – The Polish parliament passes an act dissolving all unions, together with Solidarity.
November 1982 – Walesa is launched.
July 1983 – Martial legislation is lifted.
1987 – Walesa’s guide, “A Approach of Hope,” is printed.
November 1989 – Addresses a joint session of the US Congress.
December 1990 – Is elected president of Poland.
1991 – Walesa’s autobiography, “The Battle and The Triumph,” is printed.
November 1995 – Is defeated within the presidential election.
2000 – Is once more defeated within the presidential election.
August 2006 – Proclaims he has stop Solidarity as he opposes the union’s assist of Poland’s present management.
February 2008 – Is implanted with a pacemaker at a hospital in Houston.
2009 – Sues Polish President Lech Kaczynski for libel, due to Kaczynski’s feedback that Walesa was a spy within the Seventies. Kaczynski is killed in a airplane crash in April 2010.
March 2013 – Tells a tv reporter that as a minority, homosexual individuals don’t have any proper to outstanding positions in politics, and may sit towards the rear of parliament and even “behind a wall.” He later refuses to apologize.
July 8, 2017 – Is hospitalized with coronary heart issues in Gdansk.
