1928 in Belgium

none 1928 Events in the year 1928 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch – Albert I Prime Minister – Henri JasparJ.E. Helmreich, Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, 1976 Events 19 January – Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).821 1 March – First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi).Kroniek 821 27 April – First board meeting of the newly established National Fund for Scientific Research, chaired by Émile Francqui.Kroniek 823 13 May – The 1928 Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race is won by Belgian rider Ernest Mottard.http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/cla_liege_bastogne/liege1928.php 18ème Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1928 Memoire du cyclisme https://web.archive.org/web/20040707002904/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/cla_liege_bastogne/liege1928.php 7 July 2004 June – The Belgian Open golf tournament is played at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium and is won by Albert Tingey Jr.The Times 19 June 1928 7 Belgian championship 4 July – Financier Alfred Loewenstein vanishes on a Croydon Airport to Brussels.Kroniek 823 29 July – Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-Mer 5 to 12 August – Socialist International meets in Brussels.Kroniek 822 6 October – New sluices in Nieuwpoort breached by high water.Kroniek 821 Art and architecture Buildings Alphonse Pauwels' art deco Cinema Roma opens in Borgerhout Films Rigo Arnould's L'Yser premières in Brussels on 24 September Artworks René Magritte “Les Amants” Births 1 May – Raoul Servais, filmmaker (died 2023) 13 May – Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist (died 2018) 11 June – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain (died 2014)http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3658742,00.html Belgium: Queen Fabiola in serious condition with pneumonia Ynetnews 20 June 1995 26 June 2015 16 June – Annie Cordy, performer (died 2020) 27 June – Antoinette Spaak, politician (died 2020) 10 July –  Yvette Cauquil-Prince, weaver (died 2005) Herman Van der Wee, economic historian 26 September – Bob Van der Veken, actor (died 2019) 9 December – André Milhoux, racing driverhttp://www.oldracingcars.com/driver/Andre_Milhoux The World Championship drivers - Where are they now? 2007-07-29 Jenkins Richard OldRacingCars.com 19 December – Annette Wademant, screenwriter (died 2017) Deaths 17 January – Karl Hanquet, historian, 57 18 March – Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32 4 July – Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51 References 1928 Category:1920s in Belgium Belgium Category:Years of the 20th century in Belgium Belgium