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See also:	Other events of 1968 Timeline of Polish history

Events in the year 1968 in Poland.

Incumbents

Events

January

• 16 January – The Ministry of Culture and Art decided to suspend all performances of Adam Mickiewicz's 1824 play Dziady directed by Kazimierz Dejmek at the National Theatre, starting from 1 February, after it was deemed “anti-Russian,” “anti-Soviet,” and “religiose.”^[1]
• 30 January – A demonstration against the censorship of the play Dziady was held by students at the Adam Mickiewicz Monument in Warsaw.^[1]

February

• 6 February – Satirist Janusz Szpotański was sentenced to three years in prison for “preparing and sharing for the purposes of dissemination material harmful to the interest of the State.”^[2]

March

• 8 March – 1968 Polish political crisis: A students’ protest took place in the courtyard of the University of Warsaw, beginning a series of protests that broke out throughout the country.^[1]
• 16 March – 1968 Polish political crisis: A demonstration was held in Gdańsk, attended by around 20,000 people. About 3,000 ZOMO officers and ORMO volunteers were deployed to suppress it. Nearly 300 protesters had been arrested.^[3]

April

• 11 April – Wojciech Jaruzelski became the Minister of National Defence.

May

• 16 May – Serial murderer Karol Kot was executed by hanging in a detention centre in Mysłowice.

September

• 8 September – Ryszard Siwiec set himself on fire at a national harvest festival in Warsaw in protest of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died four days later in the Praski Hospital.

Births

January

• 1 January – Aldona Orman, actress.
• 5 January – Andrew Golota, professional boxer.
• 14 January – Krystyna Zabawska, shot putter.

February

• 1 February – Monika Bolly, actress.
• 4 February – Joachim Brudziński, politician.
• 25 February – Paweł Piskorski, politician.
• 28 February:
  • Krzysztof Tołwiński, politician.
  • Mirosław Maliszewski, politician.

March

• 6 March – Kamil Durczok, journalist.
• 7 March:
  • Krystyna Liberda-Stawarska, biathlete.
  • Przemysław Saleta, professional boxer, kickboxer, and mixed martial artist.
• 13 March – Marek Gróbarczyk, politician.
• 16 March – Izabela Dylewska, spring canoer.
• 31 March – Ireneusz Krosny, actor and mime artist.

April

• 7 April – Honorata Górna, ice dancer.
• 11 April – Mirosław Trzeciak, football striker.
• 18 April – Maciej Lang, scientist, journalist, and diplomat, former Ambassador of Poland to Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey.

May

• 5 May – Dariusz Michalczewski, Polish-German boxer.
• 12 May – Jacek Braciak, film and theatre actor.
• 22 May – Helena Mikołajczyk, biathlete.
• 30 May – Tomasz Markowski, politician.

June

• 3 June – Joachim Halupczok, cyclist.
• 14 June – Jan Dydak, boxer.
• 20 June – Mateusz Morawiecki, economist, historian, and politician, Prime Minister of Poland since 2017.

July

• 6 July – Bogusław Bosak, politician.
• 19 July – Adam Matysek, goalkeeper.
• 26 July – Joanna Burzyńska, windsurfer.
• 30 July:
  • Anna Korcz, actress.
  • Robert Korzeniowski, racewalker.

August

• 10 August – Wioletta Kryza, long-distance runner.
• 13 August – Beata Maciejewska, politician.
• 18 August – Wojciech Pomajda, politician.
• 20 August – Maciej Grubski, politician.
• 29 August – Artur Ostrowski, politician.

September

• 3 September – Piotr Rubik, symphonic pop composer.
• 16 September – Jarosław Ziętara, journalist.

October

• 7 October — Marta Otrębska, football striker.

November

• 16 November – Janusz Szrom, jazz composer and vocalist.
• 27 November – Stanisław Gawłowski, politician.

December

• 6 December – Olaf Lubaszenko, actor and film director.
• 8 December – Tomasz Lenz, politician.
• 14 December – Jolanta Fraszyńska, film and theatre actress.
• 24 December – Marcin Korolec, lawyer and politician, Minister of Environment in the Second Cabinet of Donald Tusk.

Date unknown

• Krzysztof Starnawski, technical and cave diver.

Deaths