The US flag was changed to show 50 stars. In 1959, by the time he was 37 years old, on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. suffered their highest casualties of any operation in World War II - 89,000 were casualties, around 8,600 killed - but Germany also severely depleted their resources and they couldn't be replaced. Lasting for a little over a month, the battle began with a surprise attack by Germany on the Allied forces The U.S. In 1944, Chester was 22 years old when on December 16th, The Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes forest on the Western Front. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed 'Disney's Folly' but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. In 1939, he was 17 years old when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time.

While establishing some independence for the people of Ireland, it did not create a fully independent Ireland and the fighting continued. In 1922, in the year that Chester L Olszewski Sr was born, on December 6th, the Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, was officially proclaimed. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Chester's lifetime.

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