Events in the year 1955 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch – Baudouin Prime Minister – Achille Van Acker
Events
9 February – Joint letter from the Belgian bishops calling on the government to revise its education policy.Lize Haagdorens, De mobilisatie van de katholieke zuil in de schoolstrijd tijdens het eerste jaar van de regering Van Acker (mei 1954–juli 1955), Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 15:1-2 (1984), pp. 3-70. 26 March – Mass demonstration in Brussels against Socialist–Liberal education bill. 3 April – International friendly between the Dutch and Belgian national football teams in the Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam. 16 April – Belgian Chamber of Translators and Interpreters is founded. 6 May – Paris Protocol transforming the Brussels Pact into the Western European Union comes into effect.H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968) 16 May – King Baudouin arrives in Belgian Congo for a royal tour of the colony. 13 June – Education bill passes in lower house. 10 July – Over a quarter of a million demonstrate in Brussels against Socialist–Liberal education policy. 21 July – Education bill passes in senate. 5 November – Convention establishing the Interparliamentary Consultative Council of the Benelux.
Publications
Comics Edgar P. Jacobs, Le Mystère de la Grande Pyramide, Tome 2 (the fifth comic book in the Blake and Mortimer series)
Art and architecture Paintings René Magritte, The Mysteries of the Horizon
Films André Cauvin (dir.), Bwana Kitoko Ytzen Brusse (dir.), Introducing Belgium [The Atlantic Community Series].
Births 16 January – Martin De Prycker, engineer 16 March – Linda Lepomme, singer 26 April – Frieda Van Themsche, politician 24 May – Philippe Lafontaine, singer 8 June – Philippe Vlerick, businessman 3 July – Maria Herrijgers, cyclist 5 July – Beatrijs Deconinck, judge 6 July – Johan Vande Lanotte, politician 9 July – Alexandra Colen, politician 24 July – Joseph Reynaerts, singer (died 2020) 5 August – Daniel Ost, gardener 18 August – André Flahaut, politician 27 August – Kristien Hemmerechts, writer 29 August – Frank Hoste, cyclist 10 September – Jean-Pierre Vande Velde, footballer 2 October – Michel Wintacq, footballer 13 October – Patrick Dewael, politician 18 October – Jean-Pierre Hautier, television presenter (died 2012) 21 October – Frank Vandenbroucke, politician 3 November – Michel Renquin, footballer 27 November – Alain De Roo, cyclist 4 December – Jean-Philippe Vandenbrande, cyclist 6 December – Piet Vanthemsche, veterinary surgeon 18 December – André Geerts, comics creator (died 2010)
Deaths 2 January – Leo Goemans (born 1869), dialectologist 24 January – Charles Deruyter (born 1890), cyclist 13 February – Raoul Henkart (born 1907), fencer 19 February – Marcel Dubois (born 1886), wrestler 21 February – Emmanuel Janssen (born 1879), industrialist 8 March – Princess Clémentine of Belgium (born 1872) 21 March – Octave Dierckx (born 1882), politician 16 April – Robert, 7th Duke d'Ursel (born 1873), politician 7 June – Alfred Bastien (born 1873), war artist 5 July – Gustave Magnel (born 1889), engineer 3 August – Fernand Faniard (born 1894), opera singer 9 August – Henri Verhavert (born 1874), gymnast 3 September – Léon Halkin (born 1872), historian 16 October – Charles Cambier (born 1884), footballer 19 October – Eugène Joseph Delporte (born 1882), astronomer 13 November – Jacques Feyerick (born 1874), athlete 22 December – Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (born 1870), physicist
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