1929 in Belgium

none 1929 Events in the year 1929 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch – Albert I Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar Events 5 January – Schelde dike breached; flooding around Dendermonde.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).825 February – Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion.Kroniek 825 17 April – Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick mist.Kroniek 825 26 May – Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to parliament.Kroniek 826 9 June – Provincial elections 31 August – Contract signed to return Belgian concession of Tianjin to direct Chinese rule (coming into effect March 1931). Publications Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin first published in Le Petit Vingtième (10 January) Emile Vandervelde, Le pays d'Israel: un marxiste en Palestine (Paris, Rieder)http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/143217 Le pays d'Israel : Un marxiste en Palestine / Par Emile Vandervelde. Suivi de les Oevres d'assistance en Palestine juive par Jeanne-Emile Vandervelde 1929 Art and architecture thumb|Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels Buildings Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels (begun 1923) Paintings René Magritte, La Trahison des images Births 8 April – Jacques Brel, entertainer (died 1978) 2 June – Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020) 8 July – Édouard Close, politician (died 2017).Michel Gretry Edouard Close, ancien bourgmestre de Liège, est décédé https://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/liege/detail_edouard-close-ancien-bourgmestre-de-liege-est-decede?id=9543749 RTBF 2 March 2017 15 June 2017 26 August – Maurice Tempelsman, businessman (died 2025 in the United States) 14 September – Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist (died 2017).http://history.wisc.edu/news_janvansina.htm Jan Vansina (1929–2017) University of Wisconsin–Madison 15 June 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170514070517/http://history.wisc.edu/news_janvansina.htm 2017-05-14 dead 25 November – Marcel De Corte, footballer (died 2017).http://sporza.be/permalink/1.2904208 Ex-Anderlecht-aanvaller Marcel De Corte (87) overleden Sporza nl 27 February 2017 15 June 2017May 2022 InternetArchiveBot yes Deaths 24 August – Karel van de Woestijne, writer (born 1878) 13 December – Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (born 1858) 26 December – Albert Giraud, poet (born 1860) References 1929 Category:1920s in Belgium Belgium Category:Years of the 20th century in Belgium Belgium