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1568: at the Battle of Jodoigne, the Spanish troops defeated the army of William the Silent (pictured) during the Eighty Years' War
1944: birth of Raoul Lambert, soccer player for Club Brugge and the Belgium national football team
1946: birth of Lucien Van Impe, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1976
1956: birth of Alexander Baervoets, choreographer
1995: Willy Claes resigns as Secretary General of NATO after allegations of corruption
1996: White March in Brussels: more than 300,000 people protest against the problesm with the investigation against child molester Marc Dutroux
2005: death of Jean-Michel Folon, illustrator, painter and sculptor