1928 in Belgium

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See also:	Other events of 1928 List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1928 in Belgium.

Incumbents

Monarch – Albert I

Prime Minister – Henri Jaspar[1]

Events

• 19 January – Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.[2]^:821
• 1 March – First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi).[2]^:821
• 27 April – First board meeting of the newly established National Fund for Scientific Research, chaired by Émile Francqui.[2]^:823
• 13 May – The 1928 Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race is won by Belgian rider Ernest Mottard.[3]
• June – The Belgian Open golf tournament is played at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium and is won by Albert Tingey Jr.[4]
• 4 July – Financier Alfred Loewenstein vanishes on a Croydon Airport to Brussels.[2]^:823
• 29 July – Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-Mer
• 5 to 12 August – Socialist International meets in Brussels.[2]^:822
• 6 October – New sluices in Nieuwpoort breached by high water.[2]^:821

Art and architecture

Buildings

• Alphonse Pauwels' art deco Cinema Roma opens in Borgerhout

Films

• Rigo Arnould's L'Yser premières in Brussels on 24 September

Births

• 13 May – Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist (died 2018)
• 11 June – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain (died 2014)[5]
• 16 June – Annie Cordy, performer (died 2020)
• 27 June – Antoinette Spaak, politician (died 2020)
• 10 July – Herman Van der Wee, economic historian
• 26 September – Bob Van der Veken, actor (died 2019)
• 9 December – André Milhoux, racing driver[6]

Deaths

• 17 January – Karl Hanquet, historian, 57
• 18 March – Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32
• 4 July – Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51

References

1. J.E. Helmreich, Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, 1976
2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
3. "18ème Liège-Bastogne-Liège 1928". Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on 7 July 2004.
4. "Belgian championship". The Times. 19 June 1928. p. 7.
5. "Belgium: Queen Fabiola in serious condition with pneumonia". Ynetnews. 20 June 1995. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
6. Jenkins, Richard. "The World Championship drivers - Where are they now?". OldRacingCars.com. Retrieved 2007-07-29.