Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/April/April 5


 * 1252: death of Juliana of Liège, saint
 * 1822: birth of Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, economist
 * 1831: death of Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, entomologist
 * 1885: the first Socialist party in Belgium, the Belgian Labour Party (POB-BWP), is founded in Brussels
 * 1923: birth of Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist, essayist, and survivor of the Holocaust
 * 1929: birth of Hugo Claus, writer and poet
 * 1943: American bombers attack the town of Mortsel killing near a thousand Belgian civilians.