Events in the year 1966 in Belgium.
Incumbents Monarch: Baudouin Prime Minister: Pierre Harmel (until 19 March), Paul Vanden Boeynants (from 19 March)
Events
31 January – Clashes between gendarmes and demonstrators from the closing Zwartberg mine leave two colliers dead. 10 February – Belgium ratifies London Fisheries Convention. 11 February – Pierre Harmel proffers his resignation as prime minister due to internal policy divisions in his Christian Democrat–Socialist coalition.La crise gouvernementale en Belgique (février-mars 1966) (I), Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP, 314 (1966) 7, pp. 1-21. 15 February to 9 May – Women at FN Herstal strike for equal pay.Catherine Hoskyns, Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union (London and New York, Verso Books, 1996), pp. 65-68. 15 March – London Fisheries Convention regulating fisheries in the North Sea comes into force. 19 March – Paul Vanden Boeynants takes office at the head of a Christian Democrat–Liberal coalition.La crise gouvernementale en Belgique (février-mars 1966) (II), Courrier hebdomadaire du CRISP, 315 (1966) 8, pp. 1-21. 11 May – Real Madrid defeat FK Partizan in the 1966 European Cup Final at the Heysel Stadium. 13 May Belgian bishops issue a declaration rejecting calls to remove the French-language section of the Catholic University of Leuven from the city of Leuven. Elizabeth II visits Langemark to pay her respects at the Saint Julien Memorial to Canadian soldiers of the First World War. 2 June – Demonstration in Brussels in support of equal pay for equal work.
Publications OECD, Economic Surveys: Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union.
Art René Magritte La Décalcomanie
Births 26 January – Conny Aerts, astrophysicist 25 April – Eliane Tillieux, politician 3 July – Isabelle Emmery, politician 9 July – Amélie Nothomb, novelist 15 July – Elisa Brune, writer and journalist (died 2018) 6 September – Joachim Coens, politician and businessman 27 October – Nathalie Loriers, jazz musician 5 December – Patrick Ouchène, singer 16 December – Fatima Lamarti, politician
Deaths 4 January – Georges Theunis (born 1873), former Prime Minister 8 January – Marthe Cnockaert (born 1892), spy 10 March – Émile Coulonvaux (born 1892), politician 29 March – Albert-Édouard Janssen (born 1883), politician and banker 19 April – Albert Servaes (born 1883), painter 20 June – Georges Lemaître (born 1894), priest and astrophysicist 19 August – François Demol (born 1895), footballer 5 December – Sylvère Maes (born 1909), racing cyclist 29 December – Pierre Nothomb (born 1887), writer and politician
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