Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/June

These are the selected anniversaries for June that appear on the Belgium portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.

June 1

1963: birth of Vital Borkelmans, footballer, played with Belgium and was in the team for the 1994 and 1998 World Cups
1965: death of Curly Lambeau, son of Belgian immigrants in the US who became the founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional football team
1973: birth of Frederik Deburghgraeve, swimmer, winner of the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
1982: birth of Justine Henin-Hardenne, tennis player, winner of five Grand Slam singles titles and the gold medal in women's singles at the 2004 Summer Olympics
1983: death of Prince Charles of Belgium (pictured), Prince Regent of Belgium from 1944 till 1950

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June 2

1958: birth of Jo Vandeurzen, politician, as of 2006 chairman of Christian Democratic and Flemish, one of the main Flemish political parties
1971: death of Charles Dekeukeleire, film director

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June 3

1688: death of Maximilian Henry of Bavaria, prince-bishop of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège
1963: birth of Rudy Demotte, politician

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June 4

1749: death of Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1831: Leopold I is elected as the first King of the Belgians by the National Congress
1933: birth of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
1940: birth of John Massis, teeth acrobat
1981: birth of Christophe Soumillon, jockey

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June 5

1568: death by decapitation of Lamoral, Count of Egmont and Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn, statesmen
1947: birth of Maurice Martens, soccer player, selected 26 times for the Belgium national football team
1962: birth of Princess Astrid of Belgium
1973: birth of Gella Vandecaveye, judoka, winner of the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
2002: death of Gaston Geens, politician, Minister-president of Flanders between 1981 and 1992
2004: Olivier Rochus and Xavier Malisse win the men's doubles at the Roland Garros Tournament

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June 6

1251: death of William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders
1580: birth of Godefroy Wendelin, astronomer
1807: birth of Adrien-François Servais, called "the Paganini of the cello" by Hector Berlioz
1881: death of Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist, teacher of Eugène Ysaÿe
1934: birth of Albert II, King of the Belgians since 1993
1950: birth of Chantal Akerman, film director

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June 7

1337: death of William I, Count of Hainaut
1607: death of Johannes Matelart, Renaissance composer
1840: birth of Charlotte of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
1917: start of the Battle of Messines with the explosion of 455 tons of ammonal, killing about 10,000 German troops and creating what was possibly the loudest man-made noise made up to that date
1931: the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing is unveiled
1944: King Leopold III of Belgium is deported with his family to Germany
2002: death of Mary Lilian Baels, Princess de Réthy, controversial second wife of King Leopold III of Belgium

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June 8

1696: birth of Count Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1849: birth of Julien Dillens, sculptor
1903: birth of Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
1923: birth of Karel Goeyvaerts, composer
1964: birth of Fabrizio Cassol, jazz saxophone player and composer
1983: birth of Kim Clijsters, tennis player; former world number 1 ranked

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June 9

1580: birth of Daniel Heinsius, Renaissance scholar, working in Holland
1971: birth of Gilles De Bilde, footballer, played with the Belgian national team and was in the team for Euro 2000, winner of the Belgian Golden Shoe in 1994

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June 10

1742: death of François Roettiers, late Baroque painter
1931: birth of Gaston Geens, politician, Minister-president of Flanders between 1981 and 1992
2006: abduction of Nathalie Mahy and Stacy Lemmens, aged 10 and 7; their murdered bodies were discovered on June 28, 2006

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June 11

888: death of Rimbert, saint
1403: birth of John IV, Duke of Brabant, founder of the Catholic University of Leuven
1928: birth of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, consort of King Baudouin of Belgium
2005: Libération journalist Florence Aubenas is released in Iraq after being held hostage for over five months

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June 12

1968: Cyclist Eddy Merckx becomes the first Belgian ever to win the Giro d'Italia
1990: Belgium wins its first match in the 1990 FIFA World Cup against South Korea with 2-0

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June 13

823: birth of Charles the Bald, King of West Francia
1142: death of Godfrey II of Leuven, Count of Leuven, landgrave of Brabant and margrave of Antwerp
1870: birth of Jules Bordet, immunologist and microbiologist, received the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901: birth of Lode Zielens, writer and journalist
1913: death of Camille Lemonnier, writer and poet
1914: birth of Constant Vanden Stock, brewer, former president and player with R.S.C. Anderlecht, former coach of the Belgium national football team between 1958 and 1968
1952: birth of Jean-Marie Dedecker, judo coach and politician

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June 14

1594: death of Orlandus Lassus, one of the main Renaissance composers
1769: birth of Lieven Bauwens, early industrial spy
1907: death of Adolf Daens, priest, one of the originators of Christian Socialism in Flanders
1952: birth of Madani Bouhouche, convicted for two murders and suspected of connections with the Nijvel gang
1985: the Schengen Agreement is signed by Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
2006: death of Jean Roba, comics artist, best known for Boule et Bill

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June 15

1467: death of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Flanders and margrave of Antwerp, joined most of the current territory of Belgium into the Duchy of Burgundy
1906: birth of Léon Degrelle, founder of Rex, Nazi, and Holocaust denier
1943: birth of Johnny Hallyday, singer, of Belgian descent but as of 2006 still with the French nationality
1948: birth of Paul Michiels, singer of Soulsister
1965: birth of Annelies Bredael, rower, silver medalist at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
1992: death of Jean Aerts, cyclist, World Champion in 1935

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June 16

1815: Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before Waterloo
1884: Jules Malou becomes the Prime Minister of Belgium
1982: birth of Stein Huysegems, footballer

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June 17

1944: birth of Annemie Neyts, politician, as of 2006 president of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
1945: birth of Eddy Merckx, cyclist, five times winner of the Tour de France, three times winner of the World Cycling Championship
1976: birth of Sven Nys, cyclo-cross racer, World Champion in 2005

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June 18

1464: death of Roger van der Weyden, painter
1815: at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte is defeated by the combined troops of the United Kingdom, the United Netherlands, and Prussia
1848: birth of Jacques Bouhy, baritone, one of the main stars in the first performance of Carmen by Georges Bizet
1865: death of Antoine Wiertz, Romantic painter and sculptor
1930: foundation of the INR, the national broadcasting company, forerunner of the VRT and the RTBF
1971: birth of C.J. Bolland, music producer and remixer
1975: birth of Marie Gillain, actress and model
1997: death of Edmond Leburton, politician, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1973 and 1974

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June 19

1369: marriage of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (pictured) and Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, thereby joining Flanders to the Duchy of Burgundy
1862: birth of Paul Saintenoy, architect
1967: birth of Emilio Ferrera, soccer player and coach, as of 2006 coach of Club Brugge

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June 20

840: death of Louis the Pious, emperor, King of the Franks
1638: at the Battle of Kallo, the Austrian forces defeated the Dutch troops near Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War
1966: death of Georges Lemaître, astronomer, originator of the Big Bang theory
1980: death of Jijé, comics artist of Spirou et Fantasio, father of the Marcinelle school

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June 21

1903: death of Henri Alexis Brialmont, fortification engineer
1908: death of Luiz Cruls, astronomer
1951: birth of Tony Van Parys, former minister in the Belgian Federal Government between 1998 and 1999

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June 22

1927: birth of Ann Petersen, actress
1980: West Germany wins the European Football Championship by defeating Belgium in the final with 2-1
1982: birth of Kristof Vliegen, tennis player

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June 23

1305: the Treaty of Athis-sur-Orge grants independence to Flanders, but gives the cities of Lille, Douai and Béthune to France
1356: death of Margaret, Countess of Hainaut
1576: death of Levina Teerlinc, court painter in England
1612: birth of André Tacquet, mathematician
1880: death of Albrecht Rodenbach, poet and inspiration for the Flemish movement

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June 24

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1340: birth in Ghent of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, ancestor of the English kings of the house of Lancaster
1587: birth of Hans van Steenwinckel, architect, mostly active in Denmark
1798: death of Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
1846: death of Jan Frans Willems, writer
1913: birth of Gustaaf Deloor, cyclist, winner of the first two editions of the Vuelta a España
1927: birth of Alfons Van Brandt, soccer player, selected 38 times for the Belgium national football team

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June 25

1679: death of Nikolaus van Hoy, Baroque painter
1928: birth of Peyo (Pierre Culliford), creator of The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit
1953: death of Jules Van Nuffel, musicologist and composer

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June 26

1794: at the Battle of Fleurus, where the French beat the Austrians, for the first time a balloon was used for military purposes
1961: death of Hélène Dutrieu (pictured), first woman aviator of Belgium, beating the women's world nonstop flight record in 1911
1969: birth of Ingrid Lempereur, swimmer, winner of the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

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June 27

1694: birth of John Michael Rysbrack, sculptor
1944: birth of Patrick Sercu, cyclist, gold medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and twice World Champion sprinting

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June 28

1550: birth of Johannes van den Driesche, Orientalist and exegete
1577: birth of Peter Paul Rubens, the most popular and prolific Flemish and European painter of the 17th century, proponent of an exuberant Baroque style which emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality
1598: death of Abraham Ortelius, cartographer and creator of the first modern atlas
1919: Eupen, Malmedy and Sankt-Vith are annexed from Germany by Belgium after World War I, due to the Treaty of Versailles
1954: birth of Benoît Sokal, video game designer and comics artist, best known for Canardo
1994: death of Idel Ianchelevici, sculptor

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June 29

1517: birth of Rembert Dodoens, botanist and physician
1905: birth of Louis Scutenaire, surrealist poet

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June 30

1898: death of Ernest Candèze, entomologist
1925: birth of Micheline Lannoy, figure skater, winner of the gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London
1931: birth of Bert Eriksson, neo-Nazi
1960: independence of the former Belgian colony the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the Congo Crisis

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