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1955 In Belgium
Events in the year 1955 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch – Baudouin *Prime Minister – Achille Van Acker Events * 9 February – Joint letter from the Belgian bishops calling on the government to revise its education policy.Lize HaagdorensDe mobilisatie van de katholieke zuil in de schoolstrijd tijdens het eerste jaar van de regering Van Acker (mei 1954–juli 1955) ''Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis'', 15:1-2 (1984), pp. 3-70. * 26 March – Mass demonstration in Brussels against Socialist–Liberal education bill. * 3 April – International friendly between the Dutch and Belgian national football teams in the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam. * 16 April – Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters is founded. * 6 May – Paris Protocol transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union comes into effect.H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), ''International Organisation and Integration'' (Deventer and Leyden, 1968) * 16 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of and has a population of more than 11.5 million, making it the 22nd most densely populated country in the world and the 6th most densely populated country in Europe, with a density of . Belgium is part of an area known as the Low Countries, historically a somewhat larger region than the Benelux group of states, as it also included parts of northern France. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège, Bruges, Namur, and Leuven. Belgium is a sovereign state and a federal constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary system. Its institutional organization is complex and is structured on both regional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benelux
The Benelux Union ( nl, Benelux Unie; french: Union Benelux; lb, Benelux-Unioun), also known as simply Benelux, is a politico-economic union and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighboring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portmanteau formed from joining the first few letters of each country's name and was first used to name the customs agreement that initiated the union (signed in 1944). It is now used more generally to refer to the geographic, economic, and cultural grouping of the three countries. The Benelux is an economically dynamic and densely populated region, with 5.6% of the European population (29.55 million residents) and 7.9% of the joint EU GDP (€36,000/resident) on no more than 1.7% of the whole surface of the EU. Currently 37% of the total number of EU frontier workers work in the Benelux and surrounding areas. 35,000 Belgian citizens work in Luxembourg, while 37,000 Belgian citizens c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Herrijgers
Maria Herrijgers (born 3 July 1955) is a former Belgian racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling s .... She won the Belgian national road race title in 1978 and 1979. References External links * 1955 births Living people Belgian female cyclists Cyclists from Antwerp Province People from Kalmthout {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Vlerick
Philippe, Baron Vlerick (born 8 June 1955), is a Belgian businessman. He was born in Kortrijk, the son of Lucien Vlerick and Thérèse Vandewiele. He is a nephew of André Vlerick and married to Patricia Bouckaert. Career He is chairman and CEO of the denim producer ''Uco Textiles'' and also manages ''Bic Carpets'', a manufacturer of designer carpets founded by his father in 1956. In 2005, he started on a strategic alliance with the Indian Raymond Group. In 2006, he was ''Manager of the Year'' in Belgium. He is a member of the board of directors of the Vlerick Business School and a Director of the KBC Group KBC Group is a Belgian universal multi-channel bank-insurer, focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises in Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. It was created in 1998 through the merger of Kredietbank .... In November 2011, Vlerick was convicted of environmental crimes committed by UCO Sportswear in Ghent. Following the Ghent Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) is a Belgian singer and composer. Biography Lafontaine was born in Gosselies, Belgium. He spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials, including Stella Artois and Coca-Cola. Throughout the 1980s he joined the musical comedy ''Brel en mille temps'', touring in Dakar and Moscow, and then Leningrad and Saint Petersburg. Lafontaine released three albums. The song " Cœur de loup" was his first big hit and launched his career once and for all in Europe. The song garnered many awards in Belgium, France and Quebec. He represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 in Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Van Themsche
Frieda Leontine Mauritia Van Themsche (born 26 April 1955 – 16 March 2023) was a member of the Belgian federal parliament. 1955–2003 Van Themsche was born in Uccle into a Flemish-nationalist family. Her father Karel and his twin brother fought on the side of the Waffen-SS on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Her father lost a leg, his brother died. Her brother, Hans van Themsche's father, was a founding member of the Vlaams Blok. Hans Van Themsche has been convicted of several racist murders, which he committed in the city of Antwerp in the spring of 2006. After marriage, Van Themsche moved to Harelbeke. Before going into politics, she was a teacher for seven years. 2003–2023 Frieda Van Themsche was a member of parliament for Vlaams Blok from 2003 to 2007. After her first speech to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Van Themsche pronounced the words "België Barst" ('Belgium must crack'). Then-chairman of the Chamber, Flemish Liberal Herman De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Lepomme
Linda Lepomme (born 16 March 1955) is a Belgium, Belgian actress and singer who represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in which she sang "Laat me nu gaan". She earned seven points finishing in 19th (last) place overall. Filmography * ''Toch zonde dat 't een hoer is'' (1978) (TV) ... as Hippolita * ''De Paradijsvogels'' (1979) TV Series ... * ''De Eerste sleutel'' (1980) (TV) ... * ''TV-Touché'' (1983) TV Series ... * ''Zware jongens'' (1984) ... as singer * ''Levenslang'' (1984) (TV) * ''De Leeuw van Vlaanderen'' (1985) as Nele * ''Pauline and Paulette'' (2001) ... as actress References 1955 births Living people People from Lokeren Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Belgium Belgian women singers Dutch-language singers of Belgium Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 1985 Flemish television actresses 20th-century Flemish actresses Schlager musicians {{Belgium-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin De Prycker
Martin De Prycker (b. Sint-Niklaas, 16 January 1955) is a Belgium, Belgian engineer and businessman. He was until December 2008 the CEO of Barco NV, Barco, a Belgian display hardware manufacturer. He currently serves as CEO of Caliopa, a spin-off of Ghent University and IMEC and is managing partner at Qbic fund. Education He graduated as a Master of Science, MSc in electrical engineering (1979) and holds a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in computer sciences (1982) from Ghent University. In addition, he obtained an Master of Business Administration, MBA at the University of Antwerp in 1992. Career He started his career at Alcatel-Lucent, Alcatel in 1982, at that time ITT Corporation, ITT. During his career at Alcatel, he held various key positions in Alcatel's research center in Antwerp. In 1985, he started research on Asynchronous Transfer Mode, ATM, which resulted in a first world prototype in Telecom Geneva in 1991. In 1996, as head of the Access Business Unit, he led Alcatel's ADSL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Cauvin
André Cauvin (; 12 February 1907 – 2 April 2004) was a Belgian documentary film director. He directed five films between 1939 and 1955. His 1952 film ''Bongolo (film), Bongolo'' was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography * ''Nos soldats d'Afrique'' (1939) * ''Congo (1945 film), Congo'' (1945) * ''L' Équateur aux cent visages'' (1948) * ''Bongolo (film), Bongolo'' (1952) * ''Bwana Kitoko'' (1955) References External links * 1907 births 2004 deaths Belgian film directors Belgian male screenwriters Belgian film producers People from Ixelles 20th-century Belgian screenwriters {{Belgium-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mysteries Of The Horizon
''The Masterpiece or The Mysteries of the Horizon'' (french: Le Chef-d'Oeuvre ou Les mystères de l'horizon) is a 1955 Surrealist oil painting by René Magritte. The painting depicts three seemingly identical men in bowler hats. They are in an outdoor setting at twilight. Though they appear to be sharing the same space each one also seems to exist in a separate reality. Each is facing a different direction. In the sky above each figure is a separate waxing crescent moon. Men in bowler hats appear frequently in Magritte's work starting with his 1926 painting ''The Musings of a Solitary Walker''. They are represented as having undefined or identical personalities. Magritte himself is often seen wearing a bowler hat in photographs. Magritte made a gouache in 1964 with the same subject matter, also titled ''Le Chef-d'Oeuvre ou les Mystères de l'Horizon (The Masterpiece or the Mysteries of the Horizon)''David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield and Michael Raeburn, ''René Magritte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte (; 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist known for his depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, which often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art. Early life René Magritte was born in Lessines, in the province of Hainaut, Belgium, in 1898. He was the oldest son of Léopold Magritte, a tailor and textile merchant,Meuris 1991, p 216. and Régina (née Bertinchamps), who was a milliner before she got married. Little is known about Magritte's early life. He began lessons in drawing in 1910. On 24 February 1912, his mother committed suicide by drowning herself in the River Sambre at Châtelet. It was not her first suicide attempt. Her body was not discovered until 12 March.Abadie 2003, p. 274. According to a legend, 13-year-old Magritte was present when her body was retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
