At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

Albert II of Belgium | Albert II, King of the Belgians inspecting Belgian Armed Forces | troops on Belgium's national day in 2011.

* April 17 – Riots of Mons during the Belgian general strike of 1893, The day after, Belgian parliament approved Universal suffrage.

In the Belgian city of Binche the Mardi Gras festival is the most important day of the year and the summit of the Carnival of Binche.

She reportedly accepted his proposal a day after learning from Peter Townsend that he intended to marry a young Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne, who was half his age and bore a striking resemblance to Margaret.

This day is still the Belgian national holiday.

This day became the Belgian national holiday.

The proposed law on universal suffrage was approved the day after by the Belgian Parliament.

On the first day of the offensive the Belgian fortifications were penetrated before any French or British troops could arrive and the country was overwhelmed by the numerically superior Germans.

Even Churchill admitted that their position was perilous: in a telegram to Lord Gort on 27 May, only one day before the Belgian capitulation, he wrote, " We are asking them to sacrifice themselves for us.

On August 26, 1830, the day after the rioting at the Brussels Opera, and the start of the Belgian Revolution the flag of France was flown from the city hall of Brussels.

Tourists from the Belgian inland and foreigners mostly arrive by train ( day trips ) and head for the closest beach area from the station ( kleinstrand ).

* Ethical Vegetarian Alternative, Belgian vegetarian association, famous for introducing a weekly " veggie " day in their home city, Ghent

Because of the new ideas following the French Revolution in 1789, the Holy Roman Emperor ( who was governing present day Belgian territories ) wanted to impose reforms.

The other parts of German East Africa were taken into Belgian Trusteeship, eventually becoming known as modern day Rwanda and Burundi.

This involved a makeshift British and Belgian flotilla, and the Reichsheer garrison at Bismarckburg ( modern day Kasanga ).

The Belgian CR. 42s fought from the first day of the invasion, when they attacked a formation of Ju 52s ( from 17 / KGzbV 5 ) in the Tongres area, forcing one to crash-land near Maastricht.

Petrova had come into the tie with two consecutive clay court tournament victories and a 10-match clay court winning streak, while Dementieva had defeated Henin in their last meeting in Indian Wells and defeated second ranked Belgian compatriot Kim Clijsters on the first day of the tie.

It has been alleged but never proved that, fearing Lumumba's increasing popularity amongst the soldiers who might release him ( soldier mutinies and unrest increased by the day at prison camp Hardy in Thysville ), Harold d ' Aspremont Lynden ( Belgian minister for African Affairs ) sent a highly confidential telegram on January 16, 1961 to the government in Léopoldville ( Kasavubu and Mobutu ) to send Lumumba to Katanga.

He did not score again after this midseason purple patch, but his day of days came during the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Franchorchamps.

On the same day, Trabelsi and a Belgian Moroccan were arrested in two different areas of the Brussels metropolitan area.

Lewis had already refereed the Belgian semi-final victory over the Netherlands, a match observed by the Czechs ( it had taken place on the same day and in the same stadium as their own victory against France ).

The Brigade arrived at the French / Belgian border on 3 September after an overnight journey and continued to Rongy in Brussels the following day, just after the British.

During winter training, the pilots fly two practice sessions per day, six days a week, in order to fly the 120 training missions needed to perform the demonstration safely.

In the 1950s, radar was fitted to day fighters, since pilots could no longer see far enough ahead to prepare for any opposition.

During the 1765 season, four pilots were engaged at 4 shillings a day each: John Beck for the coast west of " Great St. Lawrence ", Morgan Snook for Fortune Bay, John Dawson for Connaigre and Hermitage Bay, and John Peck for the " Bay of Despair.

On 16 October, the first day of a new offensive against East Prussia, the regiment ’ s pilots claimed 29 enemy aircraft destroyed without loss.

During the German occupation, Dunkirk was largely destroyed by Allied bombings ; the artillery siege of Dunkirk was directed on the final day of the war by pilots from No. 652 Squadron RAF, and No. 665 Squadron RCAF.

Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.

The term barnstormer was also applied to pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer's field for a day or two before moving on.

He was cited and temporarily grounded for breaking flying rules, along with three other P-38 pilots who had looped around the Golden Gate Bridge on the same day.

In July 1931, Johnson and her co-pilot Jack Humphreys, became the first pilots to fly from London to Moscow in one day, completing the journey in approximately 21 hours.

This activity was part of Exercise DAY ROTOR 96 and took place on the second day of the exercise sometime after 6: 30pm requiring the pilots to use night vision goggles.

The rest of the crews were told at a series of briefings the following day, which began with a briefing of pilots, navigators and bomb aimers at about midday.

In the last four months 1944 our day fighters have lost 1, 000 pilots ... we are numerically inferior and will always remain so ... I believe that a great deal can be achieved with a small number of technically and far superior aircraft such as the 262 and 163 ...

Once the pilots had practiced this sufficiently during the day, they were then switched to night operations.

This day has since been the memorial day for fallen pilots.

During the day, pilots and their observers provided frequent reports ; fourteen were received between 07: 50 and 15: 15, giving estimated positions, strength, and movements of the Ottoman garrison.

The following day they discovered the pilots no longer commuted between Vannes and Meucon by bus, but had taken to travelling on an ad-hoc basis by cars.

" Following the end of Viva Variety, The State alumni worked on a series of pilots for Fox Television, one of which, after a year's worth of dedicated writing, was terminated the day before shooting.

On the same day the Israeli Air Force shot down five RAF Spitfires on patrol in the area, killing two pilots and taking two prisoner.

The day ’ s victory tally of enemy aircraft shot down by the French fighter pilots totaled seven confirmed and three probable, yet their losses were considered heavy – five pilots killed, four wounded and 13 aircraft destroyed either in combat or on the ground – when one considers that GC II / 5, based in Casablanca, had lost only two pilots killed during the whole of the six-week campaign in France two years before.

Fighter unit GC I / 5 lost four pilots in combat that day ( 9 November ) and it was on that same day that Adjudant ( Warrant Officer ) Bressieux had the distinction of becoming the last pilot in the Vichy French air force to claim a combat victory, in this case a Wildcat of VF-9.