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- 1688: birth of Maurus Dantine, monk and chronologist
- 1905: birth of Gaston Eyskens, six times Prime Minister of Belgium between 1949 and 1950, between 1958 and 1961, and between 1968 and 1973, and father of later prime minister Mark Eyskens
- 1924: First revenue flight for Belgium's Sabena Airlines
- 1941: death of Hippolyte Delehaye, hagiographer, president of the Bollandists between 1912 and 1941
- 1983: start of Studio Brussel, the alternative radio station of the VRT
- 1994: death of Léon Degrelle, founder of Rex, Nazi, and Holocaust denier
