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See also:
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List of years in Belgium
Events in the year
1929 in
Belgium
.
Incumbents
[
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]
Monarch
–
Albert I
Prime Minister
–
Henri Jaspar
Events
[
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]
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
[
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]
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
[
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]
Victor Horta
,
Palace of Fine Arts
, Brussels
Buildings
Victor Horta
,
Palace of Fine Arts
, Brussels (begun 1923)
Paintings
René Magritte
,
La Trahison des images
Births
[
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]
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
[
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]
24 August –
Karel van de Woestijne
, writer (born 1878)
13 December –
Philippe Wolfers
, jeweller (born 1858)
26 December –
Albert Giraud
, poet (born 1860)
References
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]
^
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
.
[
permanent dead link
]
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