* Ruanda-Urundi ( Belgium ), from 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946.

It was adopted in many countries occupied by the French during the Napoleonic Wars, and thus formed the basis of the private law systems of Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal ( and their former colonies ), and Poland ( 1808 – 1946 ).

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

In September 1946 Byas went to Europe to tour with Don Redman's big band in Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany.

He made his international debut on 19 January 1946 in a 2 – 0 win over Belgium in a ( post-war ) ' Victory International '.

* 1946 exile in Belgium

After the war, he was extradited to Belgium in January 1946 for trial.

Following the Normandy campaign the brigade saw service in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany before being disbanded in the Netherlands in 1946.

One of the resulting Ernestine houses, known as Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld until 1826 and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha after that, went on to contribute kings of Belgium ( from 1831 ) and Bulgaria ( 1908 – 1946 ), as well as furnishing husbands to queens regnant of Portugal ( Prince Ferdinand ) and the United Kingdom ( Prince Albert ).

In 1946, following the end of the War, he travelled through Belgium in search of an editor for his work.

In 1946 Wilmers ' parents moved to Europe, spending time in London, Portugal, Belgium and Switzerland.

Lucien van Impe ( born 20 October 1946 in Mere, Belgium ) was a Belgian cyclist from 1969 to 1987.

He was also appointed as United States Ambassador to Belgium by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and was Minister to Luxembourg during the difficult period 1944 – 1946 in this country, the beginning of the Belgian royal question concerning King Leopold III of Belgium.

When the Second World War broke out, he joined the United States Army and served with the 39th Infantry regiment as an infantryman in England, France, Belgium, and Germany from February 10, 1943, to January 26, 1946.

Bianchi was born in Milan, Italy, but moved to Belgium in 1946 when he was still a child, with his father who was a race mechanic working, before the Second World War, in the Alfa Romeo competition department.

More than 1, 300 members were trained and went on to serve as ambulance drivers and medical orderlies in London during the Blitz, as well as overseas in Finland, Norway and Sweden ( 1940 ), the Middle East ( 1940 – 1943 ), Greece ( 1941, 1944 – 1946 ), China and Syria ( 1941 – 1946 ), India and Ethiopia ( 1942 – 1945 ), Italy ( 1943 – 1946 ), France, Belgium, Netherlands, Yugoslavia and Germany ( 1944 – 1946 ) and Austria ( 1945 – 1946 ).

Jan Decleir ( born 14 February 1946 ) is a prolific Belgian ( Flemish ) movie and stage actor born in Niel, Antwerp ( Flanders, Belgium ).

Gaston Bastiaens ( born 16 December 1946 Westerlo ( Belgium )) is a Belgian engineer and businessman.

The Soviets also then blamed the United States for communist losses in elections in Belgium, France and Italy months earlier, in the spring of 1947.

* Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown ( Belgium )-20 Jun 1947

Precise figures on the ethnic composition of Belgium are impossible to obtain, for the language question is so controversial that the Belgian census has not included data on linguistic composition of communes since 1947.

* Official History 1918: Edmonds, Brigadier-General Sir James E., Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 Volume V: 26 September – 11 November: The Advance to Victory 1947 ( reprint Imperial War Museum, 1992 ) ( ISBN 1-87023-06-2 ).

By February 28, 1947 it was estimated that 4, 160, 000 German former prisoners of war, by General Dwight D. Eisenhower relabeled as Disarmed Enemy Forces in order to negate the Geneva Convention, were used as forced labor by the various Allied countries to work in camps outside Germany: 3, 000, 000 in Russia, 750, 000 in France, 400, 000 in Britain and 10, 000 in Belgium.

Her mother was Gladys Virginia Stewart ( 1891 – 1947 ), an American, daughter of millionaire John Henry Stewart from Virginia, a diplomat who served as American Consul in Antwerp, Belgium, and his wife Mary Virginia Ramsay Harding.

By 1947, approximately 4, 000, 000 German POWs and civilians were used as forced labor ( under various headings, such as " reparations labor " or " enforced labor ") in the Soviet Union, France, the UK, Belgium and in Germany in U. S run " Military Labor Service Units ".

On June 17, 1947, Belgium requested his extradition from Argentina, however the Argentine Government ignored this request.

Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont ( Aalst, Belgium, 3 January 1868 – Brussels, 25 August 1947 ) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism.

* Official History: 1918: Edmonds, Brigadier-General Sir James E., and Maxwell-Hyslop, Lieutenant-Colonel R., Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918, Volume V: 26 September-11 November: The Advance to Victory, London: HMSO, 1947 ( reprint Imperial War Museum, 1993 ) ( ISBN-1-87023-06-2 ).

The 1932 law was implemented only once, as the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in 1940 prevented the organization of the decennial census, which was organized in 1947 and applied only on July 2, 1954, when an ad hoc law modifying the law of June 28, 1932 on the use of languages for administrative matters transferred three previously unilingual Flemish municipalities with language facilities to the French-speaking minority ( Evere, Ganshoren and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem ) to the bilingual region of Brussels, thus and introduced language facilities for the French-speaking minority in four previously unilingual Flemish municipalities ( Drogenbos, Kraainem, Wemmel and Linkebeek ).

* Official History 1918: Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds and Lieutenant-Colonel R. Maxwell-Hyslop, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918, Volume V: 26 September-11 November: The Advance to Victory, 1947 ( reprint Imperial War Museum, 1993 ) ( ISBN 1-87023-06-2 ).

De politieke gevangene ( The political prisoner ) bronze statue by Idel Ianchelevici ( 1947 ), honouring the victims of the Fort van Breendonk, Belgium

As the invasion of Belgium by Germany in 1940 prevented the organization of the decennial census, the next ( and last ) linguistic census took place in 1947.

A decisive moment in the history of volleyball ’ s first 100 years was certainly that of the founding of the FIVB ( Federation Internationale de Volleyball ) when in April 1947 representatives of 14 countries ( Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Uruguay, USA and Yugoslavia ) met in Paris under the leadership of France ’ s Paul Libaud to found the FIVB.

Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl ( b. 18 June 1947, Etterbeek, Belgium ) is a German politician and is a Member of the European Parliament for Lower Saxony ( since 1989 ) and a member of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and the European People's Party ( EPP ).

The International Patent Institute ( or IIB standing for Institut International des Brevets, its French name ) was an intellectual property organisation established on June 6, 1947 in The Hague, Netherlands, by a set of European countries, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

The company was founded in 1947 by Bernard Van Hool in Koningshooikt, near to Lier, Belgium.

* Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown with Palm ( Belgium )-16 January 1947

* Croix de Guerre ( Belgium )-16 January 1947

During World War II, he served with the British Army in Belgium, Germany and India between 1943 and 1947 rising to the rank of captain.

* Photographs of a demo of Pye TV in Mons ( Belgium ) in 1947 can be seen here

Kirsch was born in Belgium in 1947 and arrived in Canada in 1961.