1928 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Albert I
- Prime Minister â Henri Jaspar[1]
Events
- 19 January â Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.[2]:â821â
- 1 March â First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi).[2]:â821â
- 27 April â First board meeting of the newly established National Fund for Scientific Research, chaired by Ãmile Francqui.[2]:â823â
- 13 May â The 1928 LiègeâBastogneâLiège cycle race is won by Belgian rider Ernest Mottard.[3]
- June â The Belgian Open golf tournament is played at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium and is won by Albert Tingey Jr.[4]
- 4 July â Financier Alfred Loewenstein vanishes on a Croydon Airport to Brussels.[2]:â823â
- 29 July â Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-Mer
- 5 to 12 August â Socialist International meets in Brussels.[2]:â822â
- 6 October â New sluices in Nieuwpoort breached by high water.[2]:â821â
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 âLes Amantsâ
Births
- 13 May â Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist (died 2018)
- 11 June â Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain (died 2014)[5]
- 16 June â Annie Cordy, performer (died 2020)
- 27 June â Antoinette Spaak, politician (died 2020)
- 10 July â Herman Van der Wee, economic historian
- 26 September â Bob Van der Veken, actor (died 2019)
- 9 December â André Milhoux, racing driver[6]
- 19 December â Annette Wademant, screenwriter (died 2017)
Deaths
- 17 January â Karl Hanquet, historian, 57
- 18 March â Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32
- 4 July â Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51
