1986 Event 118th Belmont: Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8 1955 Birthday Glenn Danzig, American Musician 1945 Event "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die 1939 Event German troops move into Danzig 1939 Event WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1939 Event Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor 1939 Event Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland 1935 Event 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) 1933 Event Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk) 1927 Birthday Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum 1925 Event Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office 1920 Event Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection 1898 Birthday Allison Danzig, sports writer, Tennis Pictorial History 1829 Event Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200 1813 Event Danzig surrenders to allied armies 1734 Event Russian army occupies Danzig 1733 Event Polish King Lesczynski flees to Danzig 1679 Event Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig 1611 Birthday Johannes Hevelius, Danzig, astronomer, star cataloger 1577 Event Danzig surrenders to troops of Polish king Istvan Bathory
