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754: death of Carloman son of Charles Martel, last Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
1304: at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle, the Flemish troops defeat the French army
1585: Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Burgomaster of Antwerp, signs the surrender of the city to the Spaniards after the Siege of Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
1800: birth of Charles Rogier, one of the leaders of the Belgian Revolution and Prime Minister of Belgium for three times between 1832 and 1868
1817: birth of Constantine Bruno, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, historian and minister in the Belgian federal government in 1870
1834: birth of Peter Benoit, composer
1954: birth of Ingrid Daubechies, mathematician
1959: death of Pierre Paulus, painter, designer of the rooster on the Walloon flag