Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/October/October 2


 * 1900: marriage of Albert I of Belgium and Elisabeth of Bavaria
 * 1917: birth of Christian de Duve, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1974
 * 1943: birth of Paul Van Himst, soccer player for R.S.C. Anderlecht and the Belgium national football team, winner of a record 4 Golden Shoe awards
 * 1947: Nero, a Flemish comic strip character drawn by Marc Sleen, appears in a newspaper for the first time


 * 1957: birth of Janry, comics artist of Spirou et Fantasio and Le Petit Spirou
 * 1958: birth of Laurette Onkelinx, minister of Justice in the Belgian federal government
 * 1998; death of Olivier Gendebien, race car driver, four times winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans
 * 1984: first attack by the Communist Combatant Cells or CCC, a terrorist organization, notable for mainly targeting property and trying to avoid humans
 * 2005: death of Bert Eriksson, neo-nazi
 * 2005: tennis player Kim Clijsters wins the tournament of Luxembourg City for the fifth time