Events in the year 1928 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch – Albert I Prime Minister – Henri JasparJ.E. Helmreich, Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, 1976
Events 19 January – Wireless telegraph between Brussels and New York comes into service.Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987). 1 March – First Belgian newspaper published in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo (now Lubumbashi). 27 April – First board meeting of the newly established National Fund for Scientific Research, chaired by Émile Francqui. 13 May – The 1928 Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race is won by Belgian rider Ernest Mottard. June – The Belgian Open golf tournament is played at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium and is won by Albert Tingey Jr. 4 July – Financier Alfred Loewenstein vanishes on a Croydon Airport to Brussels. 29 July – Alfred Loewenstein's corpse washes ashore at Boulogne-sur-Mer 5 to 12 August – Socialist International meets in Brussels. 6 October – New sluices in Nieuwpoort breached by high water.
Art and architecture Buildings Alphonse Pauwels' art deco Cinema Roma opens in Borgerhout
Films Rigo Arnould's L'Yser premières in Brussels on 24 September
Artworks René Magritte “Les Amants”
Births 1 May – Raoul Servais, filmmaker (died 2023) 13 May – Eugène Van Roosbroeck, racing cyclist (died 2018) 11 June – Queen Fabiola of Belgium, in Spain (died 2014) 16 June – Annie Cordy, performer (died 2020) 27 June – Antoinette Spaak, politician (died 2020) 10 July – Yvette Cauquil-Prince, weaver (died 2005) Herman Van der Wee, economic historian 26 September – Bob Van der Veken, actor (died 2019) 9 December – André Milhoux, racing driver 19 December – Annette Wademant, screenwriter (died 2017)
Deaths 17 January – Karl Hanquet, historian, 57 18 March – Paul van Ostaijen, poet, 32 4 July – Alfred Loewenstein, financier, 51
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