August 14, 1980: Polish shipyard worker, Lech Walesa, led a strike of workers at Gdansk shipyard. The "Solidarity" strike would become the catalyst that would invoke social and political reforms throughout Poland and eventually all the Warsaw Pact nations.

August 14, 1980: Polish shipyard worker, Lech Walesa, led a strike of workers at Gdansk shipyard. The "Solidarity" strike would become the catalyst that would invoke social and political reforms throughout Poland and eventually all the Warsaw Pact nations.