Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/July/July 2


 * 1600: at the Battle of Nieuwpoort in the Eighty Years' War, the Dutch army defeated the Spanish troops
 * 1943: birth of Walter Godefroot, cyclist, winner of the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix and Liège–Bastogne–Liège, bronze medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics, for many years Directeur sportif of the T-Mobile Team
 * 1959: marriage of Prince Albert of Belgium and Paola Ruffo di Calabria in Brussels
 * 1974: birth of Marc Hendrikx, footballer