Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/June/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