1929 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1929 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
- 5 January – Schelde dike breached; flooding around Dendermonde.[1]: 825
- February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion.[1]: 825
- 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick mist.[1]: 825
- 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to parliament.[1]: 826
- 9 June – Provincial elections
- 31 August – Contract signed to return Belgian concession of Tianjin to direct Chinese rule (coming into effect March 1931).
Publications
- Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin first published in Le Petit Vingtième (10 January)
- Emile Vandervelde, Le pays d'Israel: un marxiste en Palestine (Paris, Rieder)[2]
Art and architecture
- Buildings
- Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels (begun 1923)
- Paintings
Births
- 8 April – Jacques Brel, entertainer (died 1978)
- 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020)
- 8 July – Édouard Close, politician (died 2017).[3]
- 10 September – Lambert Kelchtermans, politician (died 2021)
- 14 September – Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist (died 2017).[4]
- 25 November – Marcel De Corte, footballer (died 2017).[5]
Deaths
- 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne, writer (born 1878)
- 13 December – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (born 1858)
- 26 December – Albert Giraud, poet (born 1860)
References
- ^ a b c d Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
- ^ Le pays d'Israel : Un marxiste en Palestine / Par Emile Vandervelde. Suivi de les Oevres d'assistance en Palestine juive par Jeanne-Emile Vandervelde. 1929.
- ^ Michel Gretry (2 March 2017). "Edouard Close, ancien bourgmestre de Liège, est décédé". RTBF. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Jan Vansina (1929–2017)". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Archived from the original on 2017-05-14. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
- ^ "Ex-Anderlecht-aanvaller Marcel De Corte (87) overleden" (in Dutch). Sporza. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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