Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/November

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November 1

All Saints Day, public holiday

1700: death of Charles II of Spain, ruler over most of the current territory of Belgium
1943: birth of Salvatore Adamo, singer
1948: birth of Charles Picqué, Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region

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November 2

All Souls' Day

1083: death of Matilda of Flanders (pictured), queen consort of the Kingdom of England
1953: death of Émile Cammaerts, poet, translator and professor
2004: death of Gustaaf Joos, priest, made cardinal by John Paul II with whom he had studied and had become befriended

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November 3

1685: birth of François Roettiers, late Baroque painter
1746: death of Maurus Dantine, monk and chronologist
1879: death of Joseph Poelaert, architect of the Law Courts of Brussels
1891: the first edition of the Gazet van Antwerpen appears
1901: birth of Leopold III, fourth king of Belgium

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November 4

1576: Spain captures Antwerp in the Eighty Years' War and start the Sack of Antwerp: the loss of 8,000 lives and the destruction and looting is known as the Spanish Fury
1652: death of Jean-Charles de la Faille, mathematician
1918: the Battle of the Sambre, one of the final Allied offensives of World War I

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November 5

1530: the St. Felix's Flood washes away large parts of Flanders and Zeeland
1899: Adrien de Gerlache and the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in the RV Belgica (pictured) return to Antwerp after having spent the winter in Antarctica

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November 6

1479: birth of Joanna of Castile, mother of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
1661: birth of Charles II of Spain, ruler over most of the current territory of Belgium
1792: in the Battle of Jemappes, the French Revolutionary army defeated the Austrians
1814: birth of Adolphe Sax, inventor
1956: birth of Marc Dutroux, kidnapper and abuser of six girls, murderer of four of them, in 1995 and 1996
1974: birth of Frank Vandenbroucke, cyclist, winner of Paris-Nice and Liège-Bastogne-Liège
2001: national airline SABENA is declared bankrupt

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November 7

2001: final flight for bankrupt national airline SABENA

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November 8

1171: death of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut
1578: Pacification of Ghent of the Netherlands against Spain in the Eighty Years' War
1867: birth of Léon Houa, cyclist, winner of the first three editions of Liège-Bastogne-Liège
1890: death of César Franck (pictured), composer
1949: death of Cyriel Verschaeve, writer

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November 9

1641: death of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, governor of the Netherlands, in Brussels
1956: birth of Lei Clijsters, soccer player, winner of the European Cup Winners Cup, played 40 times for the Belgium national football team: he is also the father of tennis player Kim Clijsters
1985: final and most bloody attack by the Nijvel gang, killing 8 people at a supermarket in Aalst
2005: death of Muriel Degauque, first Belgian female suicide bomber, in Iraq

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November 10

1433: birth of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, ruler over most of the current Belgian territory
1917- World War I: end of the Battle of Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest battles of World War I with about 3 quarters of a million casualties, after three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele
1934: birth of Lucien Bianchi, race car driver, winner of the 1962 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans
1967: birth of Rémy Belvaux, film director, also producer and actor in Man Bites Dog

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November 11

Armistice Day

1893: birth of Paul van Zeeland, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1935 and 1937
1918: Armistice Day: the end of World War I
2003: death of Paul Janssen, pharmacologist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica

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November 12

1723: death of Joseph Clemens of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liège
1867: death of Charles Frédéric Dubois, naturalist
1914: birth of Edward Schillebeeckx, theologian
1921: death of Fernand Khnopff, Symbolist painter
1966: birth of Alberto Rey, pornographic actor

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November 13

1904: Land speed record set in Ostend to 168.22 km/h
1909; death of Francis, Baron Dhanis, administrator in Congo Free State

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November 14

1863: birth of Leo Baekeland (pictured), chemist, inventor of Bakelite
1888: death of Jan van Beers, poet
1961: birth of Lucas Belvaux, film director and actor
1985: birth of Thomas Vermaelen, soccer player with AFC Ajax and the Belgium national football team

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November 15

Holiday of the German-speaking Community (German: Tag der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft Belgiens)

1194: death of Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
1559: birth of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1872: foundation of the Benedictine Maredsous Abbey, known for its beer and cheese
1902: attempted assassination of King Leopold II of Belgium by Gennaro Rubino, an Italian anarchist
1913: birth of Arthur Haulot, journalist
1926: birth of François Craenhals, comics artist, best known for Chevalier Ardent and Les 4 As

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November 16

1945: birth of Jan Bucquoy, film director, comics author, and anarchist
1964: birth of Josip Weber, soccer player, three time top scorer of the Belgian competition, played 8 times for the Belgium national football team

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November 17

1905: birth of Queen Astrid, wife of Leopold III of Belgium
1933: birth of Roger Leloup, comics artist best known for Yoko Tsuno
1969: birth of Jean-Michel Saive, table tennis player, former World number 1

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November 18

1522: birth of Lamoral, Count of Egmont, general and statesman
1930: birth of Marcel Marlier, illustrator of the Martine children's book series
1980: birth of François Duval, rally driver, winner of the 2005 Rally Australia

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November 19

1404: the St. Elizabeth's flood washes away large parts of Flanders and Zeeland
1595: death of Hubert Waelrant, Renaissance composer
1949: death of James Ensor, early expressionist and surrealist painter
2002: death of Alexandre de Merode, head of the medical commission of the International Olympic Committee

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November 20

1518: death of Pierre de La Rue, composer
1662: death of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands
1834: inauguration of the Free University of Belgium, later renamed to Université Libre de Bruxelles, and in 1970 divided into the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
1841: birth of Victor D'Hondt (pictured), mathematician
1887: death of Louis Gallait, painter

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November 21

1783: first manned gas-filled balloon flight by professor Jan-Pieter Minckeler from the lawn of Arenberg Castle (pictured)
1898: birth of René Magritte, surrealist painter
1946: birth of Jacky Lafon, actress in the VTM soap Familie

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November 22

1914: end of the First Battle of Ypres, stopping the advance of the German troops through Belgium
1967: birth of Bart Veldkamp, speed skater, gold medalist at the 1992 Winter Olympics for the Netherlands, bronze medalist at the 1998 Winter Olympics for Belgium
2005: death of Madani Bouhouche, convicted for two murders and suspected of connections with the Nijvel gang

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November 23

1862: birth of Théo van Rysselberghe, neo-impressionist painter
1891: birth of Pierre Ryckmans, head of Belgian Congo from 1934 to 1946
1912: death of Charles Bourseul, sometimes credited as the inventor of the telephone
1965: death of Queen Elisabeth, wife of King Albert I of Belgium, patron of the arts

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November 24

1192: death of Albert of Liège, prince-bishop and saint
1492: death of Lewis de Bruges, Flemish knight who became the Earl of Winchester in 1472
1886: birth of Georges Vantongerloo, sculptor and painter, founding member of De Stijl
1938: birth of Willy Claes, former Secretary General of NATO

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November 25

1824: birth of Michel Marie Charles Verlat, painter
1936: birth of Lucien Olieslagers, soccer player, Golden Shoe for the best Belgian soccer player of 1959
1961: death of Hubert Van Innis, archer, winner of two golden and one silver medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris
1972: birth of Stefan Everts, 10 times World Champion motocross and winner of 101 Grand Prix