2024 in Poland

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Events in the year 2024 in Poland.

Incumbents

• President: Andrzej Duda
• Prime Minister: Donald Tusk

Events

• 9 January – Former Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski and his then-deputy Maciej Wasik are arrested by police inside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw following a legal dispute over their conviction and pardon for abuse of power.^[1] They are pardoned for a second time by President Andrzej Duda on 23 January.^[2]
• 1 March – Nineteen people are injured, including six children in a vehicle-ramming attack in Szczecin. Police rule out terrorism, and the suspect is found to have a history of mental illness.^[3]
• 5 March – One soldier is killed and another its injured after they are run over by a military tracked vehicle at the Drawsko Training Ground in Drawsko Pomorskie, West Pomeranian Voivodeship.^[4]
• 24 March – A Russian cruise missile violates Polish airspace over Oserdów, Lublin Voivodeship, prompting the activation of aircraft from the Polish Air Force.^[5]
• 29 March – President Andrzej Duda signs a law suspending the country's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.^[6] He also vetoes a law that would have allowed women ages 15 and above to have over the counter access to morning-after pills.^[7]
• 7 April – 2024 Polish local elections: The opposition Law and Justice party comes first in local elections while the ruling coalition retains a majority of the votes.^[8]
• 10 May – 2024 Polish farmers' protests: Thousands of protesters march through Warsaw, against the European Union's environmental regulations.^[9]
• 12 May – A fire breaks out at the Marywilska 44 shopping complex in the Białołęka district of Warsaw, engulfing most of its 1,400 shops and service outlets.^[10]
• 14 May – Three miners are killed after part of the Mysłowice-Wesoła Coal Mine caves in.^[11]
• 23 May – A 17th-century painting by Jan Linsen that was stolen as part of a theft of 85 artworks from the Westfries Museum in Hoorn, The Netherlands in 2005 is recovered from an apartment in Kraków.^[12]

Holidays

Source:^[13]

• 1 January - New Year's Day
• 6 January - Epiphany
• 31 March - Easter Sunday
• 1 April - Easter Monday
• 1 May - May Day
• 3 May - 3 May Constitution Day
• 19 May - Whit Sunday
• 30 May - Corpus Christi
• 15 August - Assumption Day
• 1 November - All Saints' Day
• 11 November - Independence Day
• 25 December - Christmas Day
• 26 December – 2nd Day of Christmas

Art and entertainment

• List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

• 1 January – Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska, 82, politician, MP (1991–2023)^[14]
• 2 January – Zvi Zamir, 98, Polish-born Israeli military officer, director of the Mossad (1968–1974).^[15]
• 4 January – Emil Polit, 83, painter.^[16]
• 5 January – Ryszard Karpiński, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Lublin (1985–2011).^[17]
• 7 January – Mateusz Rutkowski, 37, ski jumper.^[18]
• 9 January – Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, 67, Roman Catholic priest and political dissident.^[19]
• 10 January – Janusz Majewski, 92, film director (Lokis, Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwiłłówny, Hotel Pacific) and screenwriter.^[20]
• 11 January – Marek Litewka, 75, actor (Camera Buff, The Constant Factor).^[21]
• 25 January – Bat-Sheva Dagan, 98, Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor, educator and author.^[22]

References

External links

• Online calendar

This page was last edited on 24 May 2024, at 23:40