1986 in Belgium

none 1986 Events in the year 1986 in Belgium. Incumbents Monarch: BaudouinBaudouin I, king of Belgium https://www.britannica.com/biography/Baudouin-I Encyclopedia Britannica 28 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens Events January 1 January – Breakout of 14 inmates from Arlon prison.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).1008 25 January – About 3,000 gendarmes demonstrate in Brussels for better working conditions.Kroniek 1008 February 5 February – Publication of a report into working practices in the Belgian postal service reveals massive inefficiency.Kroniek 2008 March 17 March – Albert Houssiau appointed bishop of Liège by Pope John Paul II April 12 April – About 20,000 march in Hasselt to demand that Limburg's mines be kept open.Kroniek 1009 15 April – Prime Minister Wilfried Martens and Deputy Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt lay the first stone of the Flanders Expo convention centre in Ghent.Kroniek 1011 29 April – R.W.D. Molenbeek football club goes into receivership.Kroniek 1008 May 3 May – Sandra Kim wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 singing "J'aime la vie".Kroniek 1009 18 May – Albert Houssiau consecrated bishop of Liège 29 May – The Flag of Europe first flown in front of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels.Kroniek 1010 30 May – About 50,000 protest against government austerity measures in a demonstration organised by the General Federation of Belgian Labour.Kroniek 1009 June 25 June – Former prime minister Paul Vanden Boeynants convicted of fraud.Kroniek 1010 30 June – Massive public celebration of the return of the Belgium national football team after placing fourth in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.Kroniek 1010 October 12 October – Renovated La Monnaie opera house reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.Kroniek 1010 18 October – Interior Minister Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb resigns in protest over the government's stance on the language struggle in Voeren.Kroniek 1011 21 October – An accident occurs in Kwaadmechelen with a Transnuklear transport from Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant to SCK CEN in Mol. Nuclear waste being transported does not correspond to the documents, later bringing a bribery scandal to light.https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1988/01/09/transport-illegal-de-dechets-radioactifs-le-centre-nucleaire-de-mol-en-belgique-est-mis-en-accusation_4070434_1819218.html Transport illégal de déchets radioactifs Le centre nucléaire de Mol, en Belgique, est mis en accusation Le Monde 9 January 1988 26 October – German-speaking Community Council election November 14 November – Hugo Claus receives the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren for The Sorrow of Belgium.Kroniek 1010 December 12 December – A bank robber shot by police in Anderlecht turns out to be a policeman himself.Kroniek 1011 Publications Reference series Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 44 (supplement 16). OECD, Economic Surveys, 1985/1986: Belgium, Luxembourghttps://books.google.com/books?id=9V-QDwAAQBAJ OECD Economic Surveys: Belgium 1986 January 1986 OECD 9789264158290 Books Jonathan E. Helmreich, Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943–1954 (Princeton University Press) Art and architecture Films Chantal Akerman (dir.), Golden Eighties Births 13 February – Sylvie De Caluwé, model 21 February – Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este 13 March – Ludovic Buysens, footballer 20 April – Onur Kaya, footballer 1 August – Michaël Van Geele, footballer 15 October – Sandra Kim, singer 22 October – Murat Akın, footballer 3 December – Annelien Coorevits, beauty queen Deaths 7 February – Armand Preud'homme, composer 3 April – Charles Moeller, scholar 2 June – Daniel Sternefeld, conductor 6 July – Flor Peeters, organist 23 August – Charles Janssens, actor 5 October – Jozef van Overstraeten, founder of the Flemish automobile association 16 October – Arthur Grumiaux, violinist 16 December – Marcel Quinet, composer 27 December – Louis Van Lint, painter 28 December – Karel Aerts, director of the BRT References 1986 Category:1980s in Belgium Category:20th century in Belgium Category:Organised events in Belgium