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- 1910: birth of Bernard Voorhoof, soccer player, record goal scorer for the Belgium national football team with 30 goals in 61 appearances
- 1940 - World War II: Nazi Germany invades Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
- 1941 - World War II: A massive strike breaks out against German occupation in Belgium
- 1979: death of Louis Paul Boon (pictured), writer