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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