Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/March

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March 1

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• 1597: birth of Jean-Charles de la Faille, mathematician
• 1876: birth of Henri de Baillet-Latour, third president of the International Olympic Committee from 1925 till 1942
• 1934: birth of Jean-Michel Folon, artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor
• 1945: birth of Wilfried Van Moer, soccer player, three times winner of the Belgian Golden Shoe
• 1956: birth of Jan Van der Roost, composer
• 1971: birth of Dick Norman, tennis player (pictured)

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March 2

• 855: death of Lothair I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1127: death of Charles I, Count of Flanders
• 1871: birth of Mathieu Crickboom, violinist, founder of the Crickboom Quartet with Pablo Casals
• 1962: death of Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, mathematician

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March 3

• 1819: birth of Gustave de Molinari, economist (pictured)
• 1875: Jacques Bouhy, baritone, stars as Escamillo in the first performance of Carmen by Georges Bizet
• 1972: birth of Yasmine, singer and TV presenter
• 1976: birth of Joos Valgaeren, soccer player, former player of Celtic F.C. and of the Belgium national football team
• 1990: death of Gérard Blitz, sporter and businessman, winner of the bronze medal in waterpolo at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, founder of holiday company Club Med
• 1983: death of Hergé, comics author of The Adventures of Tintin
• 2004: Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the world's largest brewer

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March 4

• 1906: birth of Georges Ronsse, cyclist, World Champion in 1928 and 1929
• 1976: birth of Thierry Renaer, field hockey defender
• 1984: birth of Tom De Mul, footballer, currently plays as a right winger for Ajax Amsterdam

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March 5

• 1576: death of Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
• 1592: death of Michael Coxcie, painter (pictured: his work Original Sin)
• 1939: birth of Pierre Wynants, chef of the Comme chez soi restaurant
• 1945: birth of Erwin Van Den Daele, soccer player, selected 32 times for the Belgium national football team
• 1971: birth of Filip Meirhaeghe, mountain biker, silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and World Champion in 2003
• 2001: death of Franz De Mulder, cyclist, winner of the 1960 Vuelta a España

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March 6

• 1447: death of Saint Colette, founder of the order of Colettine Poor Clares
• 1925: Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith
• 1949: birth of Melchior Wathelet, Minister-President of the Walloon Region between 1985 and 1988
• 1957: birth of Roland Liboton, cyclo-cross racer, four times World Champion
• 1987: The British ferry M/S Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds after leaving the harbour of Zeebrugge, Belgium en route to Dover, England across the English Channel, killing 193

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March 7

• 1304: death of Guy of Dampierre (Dutch: Gwijde van Dampierre), Count of Flanders during the Battle of the Golden Spurs
• 1877: death of Victor Scheppers, founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of Scheppers
• 1905: death of Auguste, Baron Lambermont, statesman, accredited with freeing the Scheldt in 1863
• 1920: birth of Eddy Paape, comics artist, best known for Luc Orient
• 1999: death of Paul Bouts, pedagogue and phrenologist

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March 8

• 1901: death of Peter Benoit, composer
• 1941: death of Paul Hymans, politician, first president of the League of Nations
• 1949: birth of Karel Lismont, winner of the marathon at the 1971 European Championships in Athletics, twice medalist at the Summer Olympics
• 1979: death of Gérard Blitz, sportsman, winner of two silver and one bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris

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March 9

• 1852: birth of Constantin Le Paige, mathematician
• 1975: death of Marie Gevers, novelist

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March 10

• 1585: death of Rembert Dodoens, botanist and physician
• 1907: birth of Romain Gijssels, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix
• 1954: birth of Luc Dardenne, film director, twice winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival

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March 11

• 1793: birth of Jan Frans Willems, writer
• 1877: birth of Alfred Lowenstein, businessman, Companion in the Order of the Bath

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March 12

• 1946: birth of Ludo Martens, historian and communist politician

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March 13

• 1567: the Battle of Oosterweel, often considered as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War
• 1599: birth of John Berchmans, saint
• 1741: birth of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (pictured)
• 1897: birth of Marcel Thiry, poet
• 1912: birth of Charles Schepens, ophthalmologist

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March 14

• 1886: birth of Firmin Lambot, two times winner of the Tour de France
• 1948: birth of Philippe Maystadt, politician, as of 2006 president of the European Investment Bank

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March 15

• 44 BC: death of Julius Caesar, Roman conqueror of what is currently Belgium and the first to mention the "Belgae"
• 1086: death of Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut
• 1912: birth of Louis Paul Boon, writer
• 1946: demolition of the IJzertoren
• 1971: death of Jean-Pierre Monseré, cyclist, 1970 World Champion
• 1972: birth of Filip Dewulf, tennis player, semi-finalist at the French Open

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March 16

• 1815: Prince Willem (pictured) of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
• 1878: birth of Émile Cammaerts, poet, translator and professor
• 1881: birth of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag
• 1911: birth of Pierre Harmel, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1965 and 1966

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March 17

• 659: death of Gertrude of Nivelles, saint and first abbess of the Benedictine abbey of Nivelles
• 1822: death of Lieven Bauwens (pictured), early industrial spy
• 1862: birth of Silvio Gesell, theoretical economist, social activist, anarchist and founder of Freiwirtschaft
• 1948: the Treaty of Brussels is signed, creating the Western European Union (WEU) between Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Luxemburg, and the United Kingdom

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March 18

• 1538: death of Érard de La Marck, prince-bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
• 1793: at the Battle of Neerwinden, the Austrians beat the French
• 1892: death of Charles Joseph Van Depoele, inventor and electrical engineer
• 1928: death of Paul van Ostaijen, poet (pictured: his work "Boem paukeslag")
• 1973: birth of Tom Nuyens, Mister World 1996

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March 19

• 1865: death of Joseph Lebeau (pictured), politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1840 and 1841
• 1888: birth of Léon Scieur, cyclist, winner of the 1921 Tour de France
• 1909: birth of Jean Brachet, biochemist, researcher on the role of RNA
• 1923: birth of Gilbert Delahaye, author of the Martine children's books
• 1966: birth of Frank Vaganée, jazz saxophonist
• 1971: birth of Sébastien Godefroid, sailor, silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

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March 20

• 1475, death of Georges Chastellain, chronicler and poet
• 1841: birth of Mutien-Marie Wiaux, saint
• 1964: birth of Natacha Atlas, singer of Transglobal Underground
• 2000: death of Johan Anthierens, author and critic

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March 21

• 1817: birth of Joseph Poelaert, architect of the Law Courts of Brussels (pictured)
• 1883: birth of Jules Van Nuffel, musicologist and composer
• 1926: birth of André Delvaux, film director
• 1941: birth of Dirk Frimout, first Belgian in space
• 1944: death of Pierre de Caters; first Belgian to fly an aircraft

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March 22

• 1599: birth of Anthony van Dyck, painter, assistant of Peter Paul Rubens in his youth, later famous as a portrait painter
• 1918: birth of Edouard Van Dyck, cyclist, winner of the 1947 Vuelta a España
• 1965: birth of David Linx, jazz singer
• 1974: birth of Philippe Clement, football defender who, as of 2005, is playing for Club Brugge

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March 23

• 1606: death of Justus Lipsius, philologist and humanist (pictured)
• 1865: birth of Paul Hymans, politician, first president of the League of Nations
• 1959: birth of Philippe Volter, actor in Three Colors and The Double Life of Veronique
• 1972: birth of Erwin Vervecken, cyclo-cross racer, World Champion in 2001 and 2006
• 1995: the Belgian Holocaust denial law is passed.
• 2002: death of Marcel Kint, cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and the 1938 World Cycling Championship

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March 24

• 1188: birth of Infante Fernando, Count of Flanders, son of King Sancho I of Portugal
• 1844: birth of Camille Lemonnier, writer and poet
• 1866: death of Jean-Baptist David, professor Dutch and history, president of twe first two "taelcongressen" (language congresses)
• 1992 - launch of STS-45: aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, Dirk Frimout becomes the first Belgian in space
• 1999: when a Belgian transport truck catches fire, the subsequent fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel leaves 39 dead

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March 25

• 1784: birth of François-Joseph Fétis (pictured), musicologist
• 1819: birth of Auguste, Baron Lambermont, statesman, accredited with freeing the Scheldt in 1863
• 1957: The Treaty of Rome is signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
• 1985: birth of Edmée Daenen, singer of D.H.T.

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March 26

• 1517: death of Heinrich Isaac, early Renaissance composer
• 1871: death of François-Joseph Fétis, musicologist
• 1975: birth of Freya Van den Bossche, politician, minister in the Belgian federal government
• 1978: Baron Édouard-Jean Empain is released by his captors, two months after being kidnapped and having his little finger amputated

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March 27

• 965: death of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders
• 1482: death of Mary of Burgundy (pictured), heir of the last ruler from the Duchy of Burgundy
• 1598: death of Johann Theodor de Bry, engraver
• 1854: birth of Edgar Tinel, composer
• 2001: the Pécrot rail crash leaves 8 people dead

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March 28

• 1892: birth of Corneille Heymans, physiologist, received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 2006: death of Charles Schepens, ophthalmologist

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March 29

• 1985: death of Jeanine Deckers, better known as The Singing Nun

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March 30

• 988: death of Arnulf II, Count of Flanders
• 1904: birth of Edgar Pierre Jacobs, comics artist, best known for Blake and Mortimer
• 1923: death of Jan De Vos, Mayor of Antwerp from 1909 to 1921
• 1924: birth of Raymond Macherot, comics artist, best known for Clifton
• 1969: death of Lucien Bianchi, race car driver, winner of the 1962 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans

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March 31

• 1388: death of Everard t'Serclaes, alderman of Brussels, defended the city against the Count of Flanders
• 1621: death of Philip III of Spain (pictured), ruler over most of the current territory of Belgium
• 1877: death of Jean-Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer
• 1929: birth of Liz Claiborne, fashion designer
• 1978: death of Romain Gijssels, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix

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