1943 in Belgium

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List of years in Belgium

This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 13 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.[2]: 854 
  • 17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic.[2]: 854 
  • 20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps.[2]: 855 
  • 27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces.[2]: 856 
  • 7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers.[2]: 854 
  • 10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal.[2]: 854 
  • 15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.[2]: 854 
  • 5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians.[2]: 855 
  • 19 April – Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp.
  • 20 April – Resistance attack on the office for conscription of compulsory labour destroys a large part of their files.[2]: 855 
  • 16 July – , Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for refusing to give the occupying forces access to university enrolment records.[2]: 855 
  • 6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock.[2]: 854 
  • 7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings.[2]: 856 
  • 9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir[2]: 856 
  • 6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.[2]: 854 

Arts and architecture[]

Performances
  • 17 March – First performance of 's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.[2]: 854 

Births[]

  • 6 March – Noël Devisch, businessman
  • 23 March – Marva Mollet, singer
  • 5 April – Miet Smet, politician
  • 14 April – Norbert De Cuyper, politician
  • 25 April – Jean-Jacques Cassiman, geneticist
  • 3 June – André Ernotte, film director (died 1999)
  • 2 July – Walter Godefroot, cyclist
  • 5 July – André Smets, politician (died 2019)
  • 1 September – Claude De Bruyn, road safety advocate (died 2020)
  • 1 October – Raymond Langendries, politician
  • 5 October – Josly Piette, politician
  • 1 November – Salvatore Adamo, singer
  • 25 November – Victor Albert, politician (died 2005)
  • 1 December – Danny Huwé, journalist (died 1989)

Deaths[]

  • 27 January – , collaborationist newspaper editor.[2]: 854 
  • 15 April – Paul Colin (born 1895), collaborationist art critic
  • 10 May – Arnaud Fraiteur (born 1924), resistance fighter
  • 16 August – Jean de Selys Longchamps (born 1912), fighter pilot
  • 8 October – Gustave De Smet (born 1877), painter

References[]

  1. ^ "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
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