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 * 1651: birth of François Baert, Bollandist, collaborator to the Acta Sanctorum
 * 1689: at the Battle of Walcourt, the English and Dutch forces beat the French army
 * 1830: start of the Belgian Revolution after a performance of the opera La Muette de Portici in Brussels
 * 1842: death of Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist
 * 1940: birth of José Van Dam, baritone singer
 * 1947: death of Franz Cumont, archaeologist