Events from the year 1946 in Belgium
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Incumbents
edit- Monarch: Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent
- Prime Minister:
- Achille Van Acker (to 13 March)
- Paul-Henri Spaak (13 March to 31 March)
- Achille Van Acker (31 March to 3 August)
- Camille Huysmans (from 3 August)
Events
edit- 10 January – Paul-Henri Spaak was elected as the first President of the UN General Assembly[1]
- 17 February – Legislative elections
- 24 February – Provincial elections
- 12 April – Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator[2]
- October – École Royale Technique de la Force Aérienne established outside Sint-Truiden
- 24 November – Municipal elections
Publications
edit- Fernand Baudhuin, Histoire économique de la Belgique, 1914-1939 (Brussels, E. Bruylant)
- Jan Albert Goris, The Growth of the Belgian Nation (New York, N.Y., Belgian Government Information Center)
- Katharine Roberts, And the bravest of these (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company)
Births
editDeaths
edit- 22 September – Marguerite Putsage (born 1868), painter
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1946 in Belgium.
- ^ "Today in History: Paul-Henri Spaak elected first President of the UN General Assembly". www.brusselstimes.com. 10 January 2023. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
- ^ Littlejohn, David (1972). The patriotic traitors: a history of collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940 - 45. London: Heinemann. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-434-42725-3.