1986 in Belgium

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Events in the year 1986 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Baudouin ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Wilfried Martens

Events

January

• 1 January – Breakout of 14 inmates from Arlon prison. ^{[2] : 1008}
• 25 January – About 3,000 gendarmes demonstrate in Brussels for better working conditions. ^{[2] : 1008}

February

• 5 February – Publication of a report into working practices in the Belgian postal service reveals massive inefficiency. ^{[2] : 2008}

March

• 17 March – Albert Houssiau appointed bishop of Liège by Pope John Paul II

April

• 12 April – About 20,000 march in Hasselt to demand that Limburg's mines be kept open. ^{[2] : 1009}
• 15 April – Prime Minister Wilfried Martens and Deputy Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt lay the first stone of the Flanders Expo convention centre in Ghent. ^{[2] : 1011}
• 29 April – R.W.D. Molenbeek football club goes into receivership. ^{[2] : 1008}

May

• 3 May – Sandra Kim wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 singing "J'aime la vie". ^{[2] : 1009}
• 18 May – Albert Houssiau consecrated bishop of Liège
• 29 May – The Flag of Europe first flown in front of the Commission of the European Communities in Brussels. ^{[2] : 1010}
• 30 May – About 50,000 protest against government austerity measures in a demonstration organised by the General Federation of Belgian Labour. ^{[2] : 1009}

June

• 25 June – Former prime minister Paul Vanden Boeynants convicted of fraud. ^{[2] : 1010}
• 30 June – Massive public celebration of the return of the Belgium national football team after placing fourth in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. ^{[2] : 1010}

October

• 12 October – Renovated La Monnaie opera house reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . ^{[2] : 1010}
• 18 October – Interior Minister Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb resigns in protest over the government's stance on the language struggle in Voeren. ^{[2] : 1011}
• 21 October – An accident occurs in Kwaadmechelen with a Transnuklear transport from Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant to SCK CEN in Mol. Nuclear waste being transported does not correspond to the documents, later bringing a bribery scandal to light. ^[3]
• 26 October – German-speaking Community Council election

November

• 14 November – Hugo Claus receives the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren for The Sorrow of Belgium . ^{[2] : 1010}

December

• 12 December – A bank robber shot by police in Anderlecht turns out to be a policeman himself. ^{[2] : 1011}

Publications

Reference series

• Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 44 (supplement 16).
• OECD, Economic Surveys, 1985/1986: Belgium, Luxembourg ^[4]

Books

• Jonathan E. Helmreich, Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943–1954 (Princeton University Press)

Art and architecture

Films

• Chantal Akerman (dir.), Golden Eighties

Births

• 13 February – Sylvie De Caluwé, model
• 21 February – Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
• 13 March – Ludovic Buysens, footballer
• 20 April – Onur Kaya, footballer
• 1 August – Michaël Van Geele, footballer
• 15 October – Sandra Kim, singer
• 22 October – Murat Akın, footballer
• 3 December – Annelien Coorevits, beauty queen

Deaths

• 7 February – Armand Preud'homme, composer
• 3 April – Charles Moeller, scholar
• 2 June – Daniel Sternefeld, conductor
• 6 July – Flor Peeters, organist
• 23 August – Charles Janssens, actor
• 5 October – Jozef van Overstraeten, founder of the Flemish automobile association
• 16 October – Arthur Grumiaux, violinist
• 16 December – Marcel Quinet, composer
• 27 December – Louis Van Lint, painter
• 28 December – Karel Aerts, director of the BRT

References

1. "Baudouin I, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
3. "Transport illégal de déchets radioactifs Le centre nucléaire de Mol, en Belgique, est mis en accusation". Le Monde. 9 January 1988.
4. OECD Economic Surveys: Belgium 1986. OECD. January 1986. ISBN   9789264158290.