1954 in Belgium
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Events in the year 1954 in Belgium.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch – Baudouin[1]
- Prime Minister – Jean Van Houtte (to 23 April); Achille Van Acker (from 23 April)
Events
[edit]- April
- 11 April – general election reduces Christian Social Party majority
- 23 April – Socialist-Liberal coalition under Achille Van Acker takes office
- August
- 29-30 August – Minister of Education Léo Collard sacks 110 school teachers with teaching qualifications from Catholic institutions
- September
- 13-18 September – Tenth Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels, chaired by Lawrence Bragg
- October
- 23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union (with Germany and Italy joining).[2]
Publications
[edit]- Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
- Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte
Art and architecture
[edit]Births
[edit]- 8 March – Daniel Ducarme, politician (died 2010)
- 10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
- 12 April – Steve Stevaert politician (died 2015)
- 7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist
Deaths
[edit]- 17 March – Victor Rousseau (born 1865), sculptor
- 18 April – Denis Verschueren (born 1897), cyclist
- 18 June – André Benoit (born 1900), cyclist
- 5 October – Flor Alpaerts (born 1876), composer
References
[edit]- ^ "Baudouin I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
- ^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 905.
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