Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/March/March 24


 * 1188: birth of Infante Fernando, Count of Flanders, son of King Sancho I of Portugal
 * 1844: birth of Camille Lemonnier, writer and poet
 * 1866: death of Jean-Baptist David, professor Dutch and history, president of twe first two "taelcongressen" (language congresses)
 * 1992 - launch of STS-45: aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, Dirk Frimout becomes the first Belgian in space
 * 1999: when a Belgian transport truck catches fire, the subsequent fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel leaves 39 dead