2011 in Belgium

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Events in the year 2011 in Belgium .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Albert II ^[1]
• Prime Minister: Yves Leterme (until 6 December), Elio Di Rupo (starting 6 December)

Events

• January 18 - Quiz channels are removed from Flemish television after an exposé by TV programme Basta .
• February 2 - Didier Reynders appointed lead negotiator in ongoing attempts to form a governing coalition ^[2]
• February 26 - Flemish sitcom F.C. De Kampioenen stops after 21 seasons.
• April 5 - 101 Air Unit, a documentary mini-series is first broadcast. ^[3]
• May 17 - KRC Genk win the Belgian Pro League after a home draw against Standard Liège.
• June 1 - Belgium breaks the world record for length of time taken to form a government.
• July 4 – Jagers te Paard Battalion formed.
• August 18 - The 26th edition of music festival Pukkelpop is canceled after heavy weather leaves 5 people dead and 140 wounded.
• August 28 - Sebastian Vettel wins the Belgian Grand Prix.
• September 16 - Finals of the 2011 IAAF Diamond League held in Memorial Van Damme stadium, Brussels
• October 2 - Paul Kiprop of Kenya wins the Brussels Marathon in 2:14.51.
• October 4 - Together with France and Luxembourg, Belgium saves bank and insurance company Dexia
• December 6 - The leader of the Socialist Party, Elio Di Rupo, becomes Prime Minister of the newly formed Di Rupo I Government.
• December 12 - A Pakistani family is convicted and sentenced in the honor killing of Sadia Sheikh. The case has been called Belgium's first honor killing trial.
• December 13 - 2011 Liège attack: Nordine Amrani kills 5 people and injures 125 others in a shooting and grenade attack in Liège before killing himself.

Art

Film

• Empire of Dust (documentary)

Deaths

• January 2 - Émile Masson Jr. (born 1915), Belgian professional road bicycle racer
• January 18 - Marcel Marlier (born 1930), Belgian artist and illustrator
• February 8 - Marie-Rose Morel (born 1972), Flemish-Belgian politician
• March 9 - Jacques Brichant (born 1930), Belgian tennis player
• April 11 - La Esterella (Ester Lambrechts) (born 1919), Belgian singer
• May 3 - Robert Brout (born 1928), American-born Belgian theoretical physicist
• May 9 - Wouter Weylandt (born 1984), Belgian professional cyclist
• June 5 - Ludo Martens (born 1946), Belgian historian and far-left activist
• June 27 - Thierry Martens (born 1942), Belgian author
• July 2 - Marcel Hastir (born 1906), Belgian artist, theosophist and Resistance member
• July 3 - Len Sassaman (born 1980), American technologist and information privacy advocate
• July 24 - Jan de Vos van Gerven (born 1936), Belgian historian
• July 29 - Claude Laydu (born 1927), Belgian-born Swiss actor
• August 4 - Erika Thijs (born 1960), Flemish politician
• October 11 - Dieudonné Kabongo (born 1950), Congolese-born Belgian comedian, humorist, musician, and actor
• October 28 - Willy De Clercq (born 1927), Belgian liberal politician
• November 4 - Emmanuel de Bethune (born 1930), Belgian politician
• November 12 - Hubert Nyssen (born 1925), Belgian-French writer and publisher
• November 13 - Bobsam Elejiko (born 1981), Nigerian footballer ^[4]
• December 1 - Hippolyte Van den Bosch (born 1926), Belgian footballer
• December 20 - Leopold Unger (born 1922), journalist, columnist, and essayist

See also

• 2011 in Belgian television

References

1. "Albert II | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. "New royal mediator picked for deadlocked Belgium". BBC News. 2 February 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
3. "101 Unité Aérienne, la nouvelle série belge de la RTBF (vidéo)". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 2024-01-16.
4. "Nigerian player Bobsam Elejiko dies in Belgium". BBC News. 13 November 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2017.