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1968 In Belgium
Events in the year 1968 in Belgium. Incumbents *List of Belgian monarchs, Monarch: Baudouin of Belgium, Baudouin *Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 17 July); Gaston Eyskens (from 17 July) Events * 18 January – Flemish students demonstrate against the French-speaking presence in Leuven * 7 March – Walloon Rally, Rassemblement wallon founded * 31 March – 1968 Belgian general election * April – Ronquières inclined plane taken into use * 24 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announced * 7 July – Jacky Ickx wins the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts Publications * Georges Simenon, ''Maigret Hesitates, Maigret hésite'' Art and architecture ;Buildings * Sablon Tower completed on the former site of the Maison du Peuple (Brussels), Maison du Peuple, Brussels Births * 17 August – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, economist * – Peter Goes, children's author and illustrator Deaths * 4 January – Joseph Pholien (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Belgian Monarchs
This is a list of Monarchy of Belgium, Belgian monarchs from 1831 when the first Belgian king, Leopold I of Belgium, Leopold I, ascended the throne, after Belgium seceded from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Under the Constitution of Belgium, Belgian Constitution, the Belgian monarch is styled "King of the Belgians" (, , ) rather than "King of Belgium" in order to reflect the monarchy's Constitutional monarchy, constitutional and Popular monarchy, popular function. Since 1831, there have been seven Kings of the Belgians and two regents. List Timeline ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late DateFormat=dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:1830 till:2020 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1830 Colors = id:king value:green legend: king id:regent value:blue legend: regent Legend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maigret Hesitates
''Maigret Hesitates'' (french: Maigret hésite) is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Overview When a series of letters, written on expensive stationery, arrive at Maigret's desk stating that a murder will take place but that the writer is unsure as to who will die, who will do the killing, and when the killing will occur, Maigret's interest is piqued and he soon tracks the stationery down to the house of Emile Parendon, an eminent lawyer. But, once there, tracking down clues to a crime not yet committed is not so easy and when a murder does take place the choice of victim surprises even Maigret. Originally written in French in 1968, the novel was translated into English by Lyn Moir and published by Harcourt Brace in 1969. Adaptations ''Maigret hésite'' appeared on French television with Bruno Cremer as Maigret on 26 May 2000 under the title ''Maigret chez les riches''. Also with Jean Richard as Maigret on 6 December 1975 and in a Russian Russian(s) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 By Country
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960s In Belgium
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 In Belgium
Events in the year 1968 in Belgium. Incumbents *List of Belgian monarchs, Monarch: Baudouin of Belgium, Baudouin *Prime Minister of Belgium, Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 17 July); Gaston Eyskens (from 17 July) Events * 18 January – Flemish students demonstrate against the French-speaking presence in Leuven * 7 March – Walloon Rally, Rassemblement wallon founded * 31 March – 1968 Belgian general election * April – Ronquières inclined plane taken into use * 24 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announced * 7 July – Jacky Ickx wins the 1968 French Grand Prix at Rouen-Les-Essarts Publications * Georges Simenon, ''Maigret Hesitates, Maigret hésite'' Art and architecture ;Buildings * Sablon Tower completed on the former site of the Maison du Peuple (Brussels), Maison du Peuple, Brussels Births * 17 August – Bruno van Pottelsberghe, economist * – Peter Goes, children's author and illustrator Deaths * 4 January – Joseph Pholien (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Van Den Plas
Louise van den Plas (24 January 1877 – 4 December 1968) was a Belgian suffragist and the founder of the first Christian feminist movement in Belgium. Biography Louise van den Plas was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 24 January 1877. She discovered feminism by reading ''Le grand Catéchisme de la femme'', by , and the writings of Marie de Villermont (1898). In March 1899 in Brussels, she met Marie Duclos, founder, with Marie Maugeret of the French Catholic feminist association "Christian Feminism". Van den Plas went to Paris to study this movement and then, on the advice of Duclos, she made contact in Brussels with Belgian journalist Rene Henry and a friend of the latter, , a member of the Chamber. The latter were all the more interested in the situation of women as Belgium was moving towards universal suffrage and the enlargement of the electorate could benefit the socialists. The latter intended to vote in favor of women's suffrage, but there were fears associated with that. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corneille Heymans
Corneille Jean François Heymans (28 March 1892 – 18 July 1968) was a Belgian physiologist. He studied at the Jesuit College of Saint Barbara and then at Ghent University, where he obtained a doctor's degree in 1920. Heymans won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how blood pressure and the oxygen content of the blood are measured by the body and transmitted to the brain. Early life and education After graduation Heymans worked at the Collège de France (under Prof. E. Gley), the University of Lausanne (under Prof. M. Arthus), the University of Vienna (under Prof. H. H. Meyer), University College London (under Prof. E. H. Starling) and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (under Prof. C. F. Wiggers). In 1922 Heymans became lecturer in Pharmacodynamics at Ghent University, and in 1930 succeeded his father, Jean-François Heymans, as Professor of Pharmacology, as well as being appointed Head of the Department of Pharmacology, Pharmacody ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Huysmans
Jean Joseph Camille Huysmans (born as Camiel Hansen 26 May 1871 – 25 February 1968) was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1946 to 1947. Biography He studied German philology at the University of Liège and was a teacher from 1893 to 1897 while he studied for his doctorate in German philology. Huysmans joined the Belgische Werkliedenpartij (BWP), the predecessor of the Belgische Socialistische Partij (BSP) at a young age. He became a journalist for many socialist periodicals until 1904 and was thereafter active in the labour unions. Between 1905 and 1922 Huysmans was secretary of the Second International. In that function he had many contacts with Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the first Chinese revolution, in 1911. His main task was creating an active peace function. At the Socialist Conference in Stockholm in 1917 he pleaded against continuing the war. He was a fighter for the Flemish movement and fought for using Dutch at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Pholien
Joseph Clovis Louis Marie Emmanuel Pholien (28 December 1884 – 4 January 1968) was a Belgian Catholic politician and member of the PSC-CVP. He was born in Liège, and volunteered to serve with the Belgian army during World War I, being commissioned as a first lieutenant. He was the minister of Justice under Paul-Henri Spaak from May 1938 to February 1939 and was the prime minister of Belgium from 16 August 1950 to 15 January 1952. In 1966, he became a minister of State. His term as prime minister is notable for seeing the departure of the Belgian United Nations Command (BUNC) to fight in the Korean War (1950–1953). He was the last Christian Democrat prime minister from Wallonia. Honours * : ** Croix de Guerre. ** Minister of state, by Royal Decree. ** Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold. ** Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown. ** Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Leopold II. * : Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown of Thailand. * Grand Officer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Goes
Peter Goes (born 1968) is a Belgian author and illustrator of children's stories. His best known book is ''Timeline'', described by ''Financial Times'' as "hugely informative, hugely entertaining." Goes was born in Ghent. He has worked as a stage manager. He studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent. Books in English *2015 – ''Timeline A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events. Timelines can use any suitable scale representi ...'' *2016 – ''Timeline Activity Book'' *2017 – ''Follow Finn'' *2018 – ''Rivers'' External links Peter Goes , Gecko PressPeter Goes , Flanders LiteraturePeter Goes , Picturebook Makers References {{DEFAULTSORT:Goes, Peter 1968 births Belgian children's writers Living people Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Van Pottelsberghe
Bruno J. M. T. G. van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (born 17 August 1968 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium) is a Belgian economist. He is a Full-Time Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM), Brussels, Belgium, of which he was the Dean from 2011 to 2017, and a Senior Fellow at the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels. Education He graduated in economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1995 and obtained a Master in Econometrics there in 1994. In 1998, he obtained a PhD in economics there. Career From September 1996 to September 1997, he was a research fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. From November 2005 to December 2007 he was chief economist at the European Patent Office. In October 1999, he became Associate Professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, holding the ''Solvay Chair of Innovation'', where he is now a Full-Time Professor since October 2008. He was also an honora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maison Du Peuple (Brussels)
The (French language, French) or (Dutch language, Dutch), both literally the "House of the People", was a public building located on the /, in the Sablon, Brussels, Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels, Belgium. It was one of the most influential Art Nouveau buildings in Belgium and one of the most notable designs by the architect Victor Horta. Commissioned by the Belgian Labour Party, Belgian Workers' Party (POB/BWP), it was constructed between 1896 and 1899, and opened on 2 April 1899. The building was demolished in 1965, and a skyscraper, the Blaton Tower, was built on its site. Its demolition has been regarded as an "architectural crime" and an example of Brusselization, Brusselisation. Building Victor Horta was commissioned by the Belgian Labour Party, Belgian Workers' Party (POB/BWP) to build a grandiose People's House, people's house on the /, in the Sablon (Brussels), Sablon/Zavel district of Brussels. He was assisted in this project by Richard Pringiers, who was to bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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