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** In Brussels, trade talks break fail because of a dispute between the U. S. and the European Union over farm export subsidies.
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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.
** 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.
** A Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
** 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
** De dichter en zijn droombeeld ( opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels )
** Frans Ackermann ( opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels )
** and trade
** Openness Euphoria, 1974 – 1982 during which policies were introduced to encourage Arab and foreign investment through a series of incentives and liberalizing trade and payment ; the economy expanded but this proved unsustainable and growth consequently scaled back.
** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends ( the strike began on May 3 ).
** Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to its invasion of Kuwait.
** After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
** U. S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.
** The U. S. expands trade sanctions on Haiti to include all goods except food and medicine, in an effort to encourage the leaders of the 1991 Haitian coup d ' état to restore democracy.
** Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith warns that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries with force.
** Under the leadership of British Prime Minister Robert Peel, the British Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, replacing the old Colonial mercantile trade system with Free Trade.
** Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.
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