1929 in Belgium
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Albert I
- Prime Minister â Henri Jaspar
Events
- 5 January â Schelde dike breached; flooding around Dendermonde.[1]:â825â
- February â Pierre Charles becomes European heavyweight champion.[1]:â825â
- 17 April â Rail disaster when Paris to Brussels Express runs into a goods train near Halle in thick mist.[1]:â825â
- 26 May â Legislative elections; Lucie Dujardin, on the Belgian Labour Party ticket in Liège, the first woman elected to parliament.[1]:â826â
- 9 June â Provincial elections
- 31 August â 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)[2]
Art and architecture
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- Buildings
- Victor Horta, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels (begun 1923)
- Paintings
Births
- 8 April â Jacques Brel, entertainer (died 1978)
- 2 June â Frédéric Devreese, composer (died 2020)
- 8 July â Ãdouard Close, politician (died 2017).[3]
- 26 August â Maurice Tempelsman, businessman (died 2025 in the United States)
- 14 September â Jan Vansina, historian and anthropologist (died 2017).[4]
- 25 November â Marcel De Corte, footballer (died 2017).[5]
Deaths
- 24 August â Karel van de Woestijne, writer (born 1878)
- 13 December â Philippe Wolfers, jeweller (born 1858)
- 26 December â Albert Giraud, poet (born 1860)
