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2009 In Belgium
Events in the year 2009 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II *Prime Minister: Herman Van Rompuy to 15 November; from 25 November Yves Leterme Events ;January * 4 January – Johan Bonny consecrated as bishop of Antwerp. * 23 January – Dendermonde nursery attack ;February * 11 February – With 5,000 present, the Fortis shareholders' meeting to vote on the break-up and sale of the company to the Dutch and Belgian governments was the largest shareholders' meeting in Belgian history. * 26 February – Franco-Belgian bank Dexia announces 3.3 billion euros of net losses for 2008. ;March * 4 March – Association belge des familles des disparus (founded 1948) wound up. ;October * 11 October – Father Damien canonised by Pope Benedict XVI, in the presence of King Albert II, Queen Paola, and Herman Van Rompuy. ;November * 15 November – Herman Van Rompuy resigns as Prime Minister in order to become President of the European Council; Van Rompuy Government ends. * 25 N ... [...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] |
Le Soir
''Le Soir'' (, "The Evening") is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper. Founded in 1887 by Emile Rossel, it was intended as a politically independent source of news. It is one of the most popular Francophone newspapers in Belgium, competing with ''La Libre Belgique'', and since 2005 has appeared in Berliner format. It is owned by Rossel & Cie, which also owns several Belgian news outlets and the French paper '' La Voix du Nord''. History and profile ''Le Soir'' was founded as a free advertising newspaper in 1887. Later it became a paying paper. When Belgium was occupied during the Second World War, ''Le Soir'' continued to be published under German censorship, unlike many Belgian newspapers which went underground. The paper, which became known as "Le Soir Volé" (or "Stolen Le Soir"), was parodied by the resistance group, the ''Front de l'Indépendance'' which in 1943 published a satirical pro-Allied edition of the paper, dubbed the "Faux Soir" (or "Fake Soir"), which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Europe
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefaces, in typefaces with text figures the character usually has a descender, as, for example, in . The mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Belgium
Events in the year 2009 in Belgium. Incumbents *Monarch: Albert II *Prime Minister: Herman Van Rompuy to 15 November; from 25 November Yves Leterme Events ;January * 4 January – Johan Bonny consecrated as bishop of Antwerp. * 23 January – Dendermonde nursery attack ;February * 11 February – With 5,000 present, the Fortis shareholders' meeting to vote on the break-up and sale of the company to the Dutch and Belgian governments was the largest shareholders' meeting in Belgian history. * 26 February – Franco-Belgian bank Dexia announces 3.3 billion euros of net losses for 2008. ;March * 4 March – Association belge des familles des disparus (founded 1948) wound up. ;October * 11 October – Father Damien canonised by Pope Benedict XVI, in the presence of King Albert II, Queen Paola, and Herman Van Rompuy. ;November * 15 November – Herman Van Rompuy resigns as Prime Minister in order to become President of the European Council; Van Rompuy Government ends. * 25 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 In Belgian Television
This is a list of Belgian television related events from 2009. Events Debuts Television shows 1990s *'' Samson en Gert'' (1990–present) *''Familie'' (1991–present) *''Thuis'' (1995–present) 2000s *'' Idool'' (2003-2011) *''Mega Mindy ''Mega Mindy'' is a Flemish children's television series with a supernatural/ superhero drama theme. The series was created by Studio 100 and airs on the Flemish TV channel Ketnet. It centers around a young woman, Mieke, (Free Souffriau), who l ...'' (2006–present) *''Sterren op de Dansvloer'' (2006–2013) Ending this year Networks and services Launches Conversions and Rebrandings Closures Births Deaths {{Belgium-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website since 19 December 1995, and is often the only French newspaper easily obtainable in non-French-speaking countries. It is considered one of the French newspapers of record, along with '' Libération'', and ''Le Figaro''. It should not be confused with the monthly publication '' Le Monde diplomatique'', of which ''Le Monde'' has 51% ownership, but which is editorially independent. A Reuters Institute poll in 2021 in France found that "''Le Monde'' is the most trusted national newspaper". ''Le Monde'' was founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry at the request of Charles de Gaulle (as Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic) on 19 December 1944, shortly after the Liberation of Paris, and published continuously since its first edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Pousseur
Henri Léon Marie-Thérèse Pousseur (23 June 1929 – 6 March 2009) was a Belgian classical composer, teacher, and music theorist. Biography Pousseur was born in Malmedy and studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1952, where he joined the group called Variations associated with Pierre Froidebise. It was in this group that he first became familiar with the music of Anton Webern and other 20th-century composers. During his period of military service in 1952–53 at Malines, he maintained close contact with André Souris. He encountered Pierre Boulez in 1951 at Royaumont, and this contact inspired his ''Trois chants sacrés'', composed that same year. In 1953, he met Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1956 Luciano Berio. A less-well-known influence from his early years was the powerful impression of listening to the music of Anton Bruckner, and he maintained a lifelong interest in medieval and Renaissance music, as well as in extra-European music and their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Lejeune
Rita Lejeune (1906–2009) was a Belgian philologist who became a leading expert in the study of medieval French literature. Life Lejeune was born in Herstal on 22 November 1906. Her father, Jean Lejeune, was a local government clerk and also a poet under the pen name Jean Lamoureux. He died in the 1918 influenza pandemic shortly before her twelfth birthday. After secondary school she became a student and then a researcher at the University of Liège, obtaining her doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on Jean Renart. She married Fernand Dehousse in 1929 and together they had two children. In the meantime she also studied at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1937 she began teaching at Liège University, and in 1954 she was appointed full professor in the department of Romance philology there. Her primary research interests were chansons de geste and chivalric romances, but she also developed an interest in Walloon literature. She died in Liège on 18 March 2009, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knack (magazine)
''Knack'' is a Belgian Dutch-language weekly news magazine covering local news, politics, sports, business, jobs, and community events. History and profile ''Knack'' was founded in 1971 as the first Dutch-language news magazine in the Belgium. The magazine was modelled on ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''Der Spiegel'' and ''L’Express''. ''Knack'' has a left-liberal stance. The owner of the magazine is Roularta Media Group. It is published weekly on Wednesdays. The headquarters of the magazine is in Brussels. It is Flemish equivalent of the French language news magazine ''Le Vif/L’Express'' which is also owned by Roularta Media Group. Both magazines are published by Roularta Printing, a subsidiary of the Roularta Media Group. ''Knack'' has several supplements, ''Knack Weekend'', ''Focus Knack'' and '' Mondiaal Nieuws'', an alternative monthly news magazine. In 2010 ''Knack'' began to offer ''T'chin'', a health supplement, together with its sister magazine ''Le Vif/L’Express''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Proost
Louis Proost (7 April 1935 in Halle – 2 February 2009) was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer, who became world amateur champion in 1957. In the 1960 Tour de France, he won one stage. Major results ;1957 : World Amateur road race Championship ;1958 :Brasschaat :Sint-Niklaas : Brussels–Ingooigem :Zwijndrecht :Rummen ;1959 :Boulogne-sur-Mer :Oostende :Glabbeek :Turnhout :Rijkevorsel ;1960 :Ekeren :Bruxelles – Charleroi – Bruxelles :Wuustwezel :Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...: ::Winner stage 13 ;1961 :Borgerhout :Waasmunster :Edegem :Melle : Giro d'Itala: ::Winner stage 5 ;1962 :Beringen :Hoeilaart-Diest-Hoeilaart :Nieuwkerken-Waas :Polder-Kempen :Oedelem :Turnhout :Zandhoven :Sint-Amands ;1963 :Beveren-Waas :Hoeilaart-Diest-Hoeil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Clijsters
Kim Antonie Lode Clijsters (; born 8 June 1983) is a Belgian former professional tennis player. Clijsters reached the world No. 1 ranking in both singles and doubles, having held both rankings simultaneously in 2003. She won six major titles, four in singles and two in doubles. Clijsters competed professionally from 1997 in an era in which her primary rivals were compatriot Justine Henin and Serena Williams. Coming from a country with limited success in men's or women's tennis, Clijsters became the first Belgian player to attain the No. 1 ranking. Together with Henin, she established Belgium as a leading force in women's tennis as the two of them led their country to their first Fed Cup crown in 2001 and were the top two players in the world in late 2003. Individually, Clijsters won 41 singles titles and 11 doubles titles on the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. She was a three-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships. Between singles and doubles, she has been a champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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