• Source: 1979 in Belgium

Events in the year 1979 in Belgium.




Incumbents


Monarch: Baudouin
Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 3 April); Wilfried Martens (from 3 April)




Events


13 June – In Marckx v Belgium the European Court of Human Rights finds for the plaintiff, Paula Marckx, that Belgian inheritance law is unfair to unmarried mothers and their children.
25 June – Red Army Faction fail to assassinate Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, with a bomb in Casteau




Publications


Rita Lejeune and Jacques Stiennon (eds.), La Wallonie, le Pays et les Hommes: Lettres, Arts, Culture, vol. 2 (La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels)




Births


5 January – Liesbet De Vocht, former road bicycle racer
3 February – Wouter Vrancken, footballer
24 February – Nabil Ben Yadir, film director,
19 March – Stan Van Samang, actor and singer
10 May – Marieke Vervoort, Paralympic athlete
31 May – Jean-François Gillet, footballer
21 July – Laurent Delorge, footballer
29 August – Stijn Devolder, road bicycle racer
8 September – Frederik Willems, cyclist
13 September – Geike Arnaert, singer
27 December – Ann Van Elsen, model




Deaths


11 February – Marie Delcourt (born 1891), classicist
25 February – Marguerite Massart (born 1900), engineer
10 May – Louis Paul Boon (born 1912), novelist




References

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