1932 in Belgium
List of events
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Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch
- Jules Renkin (to 22 October)
- Charles de Broqueville (from 22 October)
Events
- 27 June to 10 September – Ten weeks of strikes in the Borinage to protest against economic conditions.[1]
- 9 October – Municipal elections
- 18 October – Jules Renkin offers his resignation as prime minister
- 27 November – Legislative election returns Catholic Party majority
- 4 December – Provincial elections
Publications
- Franz Hellens, Poésie de la veille et du lendemain
- Hergé, Tintin en Amérique (serialised 1931–1932) published as an album
Art and architecture
- Paintings
- René Magritte, The Universe Unmasked
- Cinema
- La Nuit du Carrefour (France), Jean Renoir's adaptation of Georges Simenon's La Nuit du carrefour (1931)
Business
- Lotus Bakeries established
Births
- 17 January – Roger Lallemand, politician (died 2016)
- 11 March – Piet Van Brabant, journalist (died 2006)
- 18 March – Arthur Luysterman, bishop of Ghent
- 23 March – Bettina Le Beau, actress (died 2015)
- 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician (died 2019)
- 29 June – Evrard Godefroid, cyclist (died 2013)
- 4 July – Aurèle Vandendriessche, marathon runner
- 20 August – Claudine Wallet, Olympic fencer
- 27 August – François Glorieux, musician (died 2023)
- 4 October – Étienne Davignon, politician
- 6 November – François Englert, theoretical physicist
- 23 November – Solange Berry, singer
- 16 December – Karel Oomen, wrestler
- 20 December – Carla Walschap, writer and teacher
Deaths
- 17 February – Fredegand Cogels (born 1850), politician
- 10 April – Jean-François Heymans (born 1859), pharmacologist
- 19 April – Edgard Colle (born 1897), chess master
- 24 June – Guy Reyntiens (born 1880), Olympic equestrian
- 25 July – Cyriel Buysse (born 1859), playwright
- 20 August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer
- 27 August – Ursmer Berlière (born 1861), monastic historian
- 29 September – Émile van Ermengem (born 1851), bacteriologist
- 7 October – Eugène Broerman (born 1861), painter
- 28 October – Joseph Dejardin (born 1873), trade unionist
References
- ^ "Dix semaines de grève contre la 'misère au Borinage'". Connaître la Wallonie. Walloon Government.
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