Events from the year 1959 in Belgium
Incumbents Monarch: Baudouin Prime Minister: Gaston Eyskens
Events
4 January – Léopoldville riots in the Belgian Congo 16 February – Mass protests against the closing of coal mines in the Borinage region 2 July – Marriage of Prince Albert and Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, Brussels 17 July – Law on economic expansion provides subsidies and stimulus for economic growth.
Publications Commercial information relative to the principal products of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi (Brussels, Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi) André Franquin, Le gorille a bonne mine (comic album)
Births
7 August – Koenraad Elst, Belgian Indologist 14 October – Pierre Jadoul, politician 26 November – Jacky Morael, politician (died 2016)
Deaths 9 February – Nand Geersens (born 1895), broadcaster
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