1954 in Belgium

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Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1954 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1954 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Baudouin ^[1]
• Prime Minister – Jean Van Houtte (to 23 April); Achille Van Acker (from 23 April)

Events

April

• 11 April – general election reduces Christian Social Party majority
• 23 April – Socialist-Liberal coalition under Achille Van Acker takes office

August

• 29-30 August – Minister of Education Léo Collard sacks 110 school teachers with teaching qualifications from Catholic institutions

September

• 13-18 September – Tenth Solvay Conference on Physics held in Brussels, chaired by Lawrence Bragg

October

• 23 October – Paris Protocol agreed, transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union (with Germany and Italy joining). ^[2]

Publications

• Hergé, Explorers on the Moon , Tintin album (serialised 1952–1953)
• Georges Simenon, Maigret à l'école and Maigret et la Jeune Morte

Art and architecture

• René Magritte, L'Empire des lumières

Births

• 18 January – Jeanine De Landtsheer, classicist (died 2021)
• 8 March – Daniel Ducarme, politician (died 2010)
• 10 March – Luc Dardenne, film-maker
• 12 April – Steve Stevaert politician (died 2015)
• 7 May – Philippe Geluck, comedian and cartoonist
• 13 May – René Stockman, psychiatrist and religious superior

Deaths

• 17 March – Victor Rousseau (born 1865), sculptor
• 18 April – Denis Verschueren (born 1897), cyclist
• 18 June – André Benoit (born 1900), cyclist
• 5 October – Flor Alpaerts (born 1876), composer

References

1. "Baudouin I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 905.