Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July

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July 1

1849: the first Belgian postage stamp is issued, it carries the image of King Leopold I
1962: the Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi gaines independence and splits into the countries Rwanda and Burundi
1966: birth of Frank De Bleeckere, soccer referee, lead four games at the 2006 FIFA World Cup

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July 2

1600: at the Battle of Nieuwpoort in the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch army defeated the Spanish troops
1943: birth of Walter Godefroot, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, for many years Directeur sportif of the T-Mobile Team
1959: marriage of Prince Albert of Belgium and Paola Ruffo di Calabria in Brussels
1974: birth of Marc Hendrikx, footballer

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July 3

1780: birth of André Parmentier, early American landscape architect
1805: birth of Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1841 and 1845

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July 4

1603: death of Philippe de Monte, late Renaissance composer
1780: death of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1928: death of Alfred Lowenstein, businessman, Companion in the Order of the Bath, by falling out of his plane
1969: death of Georges Ronsse, cyclist, World Champion in 1928 and 1929
1978: birth of Émile Mpenza, soccer player with 51 appearances for the Belgium national football team

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July 5

1601: start of the Siege of Ostend, ending after three years with a Spanish victory, but at a cost of 60,000 dead or wounded Spaniards and 30,000 dead or wounded Dutch
1625: death of Cornelis Verdonck, late Renaissance composer
1793: death of Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, sculptor and architect
1886: birth of Felix Timmermans, author
1923: birth of Gustaaf Joos, priest, made cardinal by John Paul II with whom he had studied and had become befriended
1929: birth of Jacqueline Harpman, writer
1964: birth of Filip De Wilde, goal keeper with R.S.C. Anderlecht, played 33 times for the Belgium national football team

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July 6

1892: birth of Willy Coppens, fighter ace in World War I, destroying 34 balloons and 3 airplanes
1930: birth of Françoise Mallet-Joris, writer
1941: birth of Alfons Vansteenwegen (pictured), therapist, author of Liefde is een werkwoord (Love is a verb)

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July 7

1833: birth of Félicien Rops, artist and engraver
2005: death of Paul Deliège, comics author, best known for Bobo

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July 8

1528: birth of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1810: birth of François Laurent, historian and jurist
1887: birth of Jean Ray, writer, also known as John Flanders, best known for his numerous fantastique works
1927: birth of Willy De Clercq, politician, former European Commissionary and minister in the Belgian federal government

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July 9

1836: birth of Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count
1903: Alphonse François Renard, geologist
1950: birth of Luigi Verderame, singer, better known as Luigi

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July 10

1638: birth of David Teniers III, painter
1877: birth of Hélène Dutrieu (pictured), first woman aviator of Belgium, beating the women's world nonstop flight record in 1911
1899: birth of André Souris, surrealist composer
1965: birth of Danny Boffin, soccer player with 53 appearances for the Belgium national football team
1975: death of Achille Van Acker, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1945 and 1946, and between 1954 and 1958
1989: death of Jean-Michel Charlier, comics author of Buck Danny, Redbeard and Blueberry

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July 11

Holiday of the Flemish Community (Dutch: Feest van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap)

1302: at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, the Flemish troops defeat the French army, and is the origin of the date of the regional holiday of Flanders
1662: birth of Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1708: at the Battle of Oudenarde during the War of the Spanish Succession, a combined force of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire defeated the French army
1738: birth of Prince Albert of Saxony, Duke of Teschen, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1916: death of Rik Wouters, fauvist painter and sculptor

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July 12

1643: death of François Duquesnoy (pictured), Baroque sculptor of Manneken Pis
1751: birth of Saint Julie Billiart, founder of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
1932: birth of Eddy Wally, singer
1937: birth of Raymond Ceulemans, billiards player, winner of 35 World championship titles, 48 European titles and 61 national titles
1988: death of John Massis, teeth acrobat
2006: death of Hubert Lampo, writer

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July 13

1621: death of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1957: birth of Thierry Boutsen, racing car driver, winner of three Formula One races
1983: birth of Kristof Beyens, athlete

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July 14

1888: birth of Odile Defraye, cyclist, first Belgian winner of the Tour de France in 1912
1914: birth of Béatrix Beck, writer

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July 15

1553: birth of Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1902: birth of Jean Rey, politician, President of the European Commission between 1967 and 1970
1921: birth of Roger Raveel, painter
1996: a Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport, killing 34 people

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July 16

1855: birth of Georges Rodenbach, Symbolic poet and novelist, author of Bruges-la-Morte
1858: birth of Eugène Ysaÿe (pictured), violinist
1887: death of Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, palentologist and chemist
1951: abdication of King Leopold III of Belgium and ascension of King Baudouin of Belgium
1975: birth of Bas Leinders, racing car driver
2001: death of Morris, comics artist, creator of Lucky Luke

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July 17

1070: death of Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders
1119: death of Baldwin VII, Count of Flanders
1579: death of Johannes Stadius, astronomer and mathematician
1894: birth of Georges Lemaître, astronomer, originator of the Big Bang theory
1903: Land speed record set in Ostend to 134.32 km/h
1938: birth of Hermann, comics creator
1949: birth of Urbanus, comedian
1975: birth of Cécile de France, actress, starred in Around the World in 80 Days
1977: birth of Leif Hoste, cyclist, winner of the KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde and two times Belgium National Time Trial Champion

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July 18

1100: death of Godfrey of Bouillon, leader in the First Crusade
1870: death of Jean Théodore Lacordaire, entomologist
1951: birth of Elio Di Rupo, leader of the Parti Socialiste and Minister-President of the Walloon Region
1952: death of Paul Saintenoy, architect
1968: death of Corneille Heymans, physiologist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1976: cyclist Lucien Van Impe wins the Tour de France, two other Belgians, Michel Pollentier and Freddy Maertens also end in the top ten of the General Classification, Maertens also wins the maillot vert
1991: murder of André Cools, politician, former president of the Parti Socialiste

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July 19

1811: birth of Joseph Massart, violinist
1961: birth of Benoît Mariage, film director
1970: cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France, four other Belgians finish in the top ten of the General Classification, Walter Godefroot wins the maillot vert and Merckx also wins the maillot à pois rouges
1980: birth of Xavier Malisse, tennis player, semi-finalist at Wimbledon and winner of the doubles title at Roland-Garros

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July 20

1517: birth of Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1960: Belgium defends its intervention in the Congo to the United Nations Security Council while the government of the Congo appeals to the Soviet Union to send troops to push back the Belgians. The governments of the US and France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization warn the Soviets to stay out of the dispute
1969: cyclist Eddy Merckx wins his first Tour de France, he also wins the maillot vert and the maillot à pois rouges, and had the Young Riders' maillot blanc existed at the time he was young enough to win that as well
1994: death of Paul Delvaux, surrealist painter
1995: death of Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist, essayist, and survivor of the Holocaust

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July 21

National holiday

1798: death of François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal
1831: Leopold I of Belgium (pictured) is inaugurated as the first king of the independent Belgium
1843: establishment of the Antwerp Zoo, the oldest zoo of the country
1885: birth of Jacques Feyder, screenwriter and film director
1904: Land speed record set in Ostend to 166.66 km/h

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July 22

1387: death of Franz Ackerman, rebel leader in Ghent in the fights against the French
1478: birth of Philip I of Castile, ruler over most of current Belgium, father of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1610: death of Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1929: death of Baron Empain, entrepreneur, founder of the modern Heliopolis
1953: birth of René Vandereycken, soccer player and coach, played 50 times for the Belgium national football team which he coaches as of 2006
1963: birth of Olivier Gourmet, actor, winner of the Best Male Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival
1974: cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France, two other Belgians, Michel Pollentier and Herman Van Springel, also end in the top ten of the General Classification
1980: birth of Kate Ryan, singer

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July 23

1925: birth of Pierre Baugniet, figure skater, winner of the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
1926: the NMBS/SNCB, Belgium's national railway operator, is founded
1972: cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France, two other Belgians finish in the top ten of the General Classification, Merckx also wins the maillot vert and Lucien Van Impe wins the maillot à pois rouges
1974: birth of Rik Verbrugghe, cyclist, winner of stages in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia

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July 24

1345: death of Jacob van Artevelde, ruler over Ghent
1927: opening of the Menin Gate in Ypres as a memorial for the British and Commonwealth soldiers from World War I
1982: birth of Elise Crombez, supermodel

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July 25

1336: birth of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Hainaut
1404: birth of Philip of Saint-Pol, Duke of Brabant
1876: birth of Queen Elisabeth, wife of King Albert I of Belgium, patron of the arts
1932: death of Cyriel Buysse, writer

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July 26

1829: birth of Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1909
1997: during an airshow in Ostend a stuntplane crashes, killing the pilot and 8 spectators

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July 27

1233: death of Infante Fernando, Count of Flanders, son of King Sancho I of Portugal

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July 28

1128: death of William Clito, Count of Flanders
1891: birth of Maurice Blitz, water poloist, winner of the silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1928 Summer Olympics in Paris
1922: birth of Jacques Piccard, one of the first two persons to reach the deepest point on the Earth's surface, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
1930: birth of Jean Roba, comics artist, best known for Boule et Bill
1949: birth of Marc Didden, journalist and film director

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July 29

1693: at the Battle of Landen, the French defeated the English army

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July 30

1591: death of Andreas Pevernage, Renaissance composer
1889: birth of Franz Masereel, painter and woodcut artist
1907: death of Thomas Joseph Lamy, Biblical scholar and orientalist
2004: a gas explosion in Ghislenghien kills 18 and wounds 132 people, in the days following the catastrophe 6 more people die as a result of the explosion

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July 31

1396: birth of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders and margrave of Antwerp, joined most of the current territory of Belgium into the Duchy of Burgundy
1828: birth of François-Auguste Gevaert, composer
1886: birth of Constant Permeke, expressionist painter
1917: start of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battlse of World War I with about 3 quarters of a million casualties
1972, death of Paul-Henri Spaak, former Prime Minister of Belgium, Secretary General of NATO and chairman of the first session of the General Assembly of the United Nations
1993: death of Baudouin of Belgium, king between 1951 and 1993

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