1954 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1954 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Baudouin^[1]
Prime Minister – Jean Van Houtte (to 23 April); Achille Van Acker (from 23 April)

Events

April

11 April – general election reduces Christian Social Party majority
23 April – Socialist-Liberal coalition under Achille Van Acker takes office

August

29-30 August – Minister of Education Léo Collard sacks 110 school teachers with teaching qualifications from Catholic institutions

September

13-18 September – Tenth Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels, chaired by Lawrence Bragg

October

23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union (with Germany and Italy joining).^[2]

Publications

Hergé, Explorers on the Moon, Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte

Art and architecture

René Magritte, L'Empire des lumières

Births

8 March – Daniel Ducarme, politician (died 2010)
10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
12 April – Steve Stevaert politician (died 2015)
7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist

Deaths

17 March – Victor Rousseau (born 1865), sculptor
18 April – Denis Verschueren (born 1897), cyclist
18 June – André Benoit (born 1900), cyclist
5 October – Flor Alpaerts (born 1876), composer

References

^ "Baudouin I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
^ H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 905.

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