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** In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.
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** and Brussels
** The E40: connects Ghent with Bruges and Ostend to the west, and with Brussels, Leuven and Liège to the east.
** Gent-Sint-Pieters Station: an international train station with connections to Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Kortrijk, other Belgian towns and Lille.
** Brussels sprouts, the most common meaning of the term in the United Kingdom
** The Belgian royal family returns to Brussels after the war.
** Treaty of Brussels signed by Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, providing for economic, social and cultural collaboration and collective self-defence.
** In Brussels, trade talks break fail because of a dispute between the U. S. and the European Union over farm export subsidies.
** Strikers in Aachen, Vienna, and Brussels demand an eight-hour working day and higher wages.
** A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
** NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels.
** Protesting Belgian farmers bring 3 live cows to crash the EEC meeting in Brussels.
** A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title ; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
** Peter Paul Rubens begins work on his famous classical tapestries, when a contract is signed in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts in Brussels, and the rich Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo.
** Rail transport in Belgium: a railway is opened between Brussels and Mechelen, the first in continental Europe.
** The low popularity of Prince William, the later King William II, who was the representative of King William I in Brussels.
** Université catholique de Louvain, a French-speaking university in Louvain-la-Neuve and in Brussels
** UCL-St .- Luc, academic hospital associated with the university, based in Brussels
** De dichter en zijn droombeeld ( opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels )
** De twee zusters ( opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels )
** Frans Ackermann ( opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels )
** Anglo-Allied, commanded by Wellington, cantoned south west Brussels, headquartered at Brussels.
** Prussian Army commanded by Blücher, cantoned south east of Brussels, headquartered at Namur.
** Brussels: Tango is a dark beer with grenadine.
** A. C. de Villermont, Ernest de Mansfeldt ( Brussels, 1866 )
** and Belgium
** Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan
** Prime Ministers of Belgium
** Low Countries ( Netherlands, Belgium ):
** Ghent University, in Belgium
** Father's Day ( Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia )
** Hasselt ( Belgium ) – Maastricht ( currently being put back online )
** Armistice Day ( New Zealand, France and Belgium )
** TNT Airways ( part of TNT Express ), in Belgium and Papua New Guinea
** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
** The British 11th Armored Division liberates the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
** Delphine Boel, out-of-wedlock daughter of King Albert II of Belgium
** The Belgian Congo receives its independence from Belgium as the Republic of the Congo ( Léopoldville ).
** Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations over criticism of its policy concerning the Republic of the Congo.
** King Baudouin of Belgium marries Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon.
** The 8-hour work day is introduced in Belgium.
** The 1920 Summer Olympics opens in Antwerp, Belgium
** Mary Lilian Baels, queen of Léopold III of Belgium ( d. 2002 )
** WWII: King Leopold III of Belgium orders the Belgian forces to cease fighting.
** The Congo Free State is established by King Léopold II of Belgium.
** Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he receives political asylum.
** Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.
** King Baudouin I of Belgium ( d. 1993 )
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