Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/January/January 3

1355: the charter of liberties the Joyous Entry is granted to the Duchy of Brabant
1794: birth of Joseph Lebeau, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1840 and 1841
1823: birth of Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer
1840: birth of Father Damien, priest, missionary who dedicated his life to the service of the lepers in Molokai
1868: birth of Franz Cumont, archaeologist
1892: death of Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
1924: birth of André Franquin, comics artist best known for Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe and the Marsupilami
1936: death of Jules Destrée, politician, early promotor of a federal state
1941: death of Eugène Boch, painter and art collector
1979: birth of Dina Tersago, Miss Belgium 2001
1980: death of Lucien Buysse, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France in 1926
1988: death of Gaston Eyskens, six times Prime Minister of Belgium between 1949 and 1950, between 1958 and 1961, and between 1968 and 1973, and father of later prime minister Mark Eyskens