The two towns Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom announced in October 2008 that they would start closing all coffee shops, each week visited by up to 25000 French and Belgian drug tourists, with closures beginning in February 2009.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

Also, at the start of World War I, Albert I of Belgium stated he was in command of the Belgian army contrary to his Prime Minister Charles de Broqueville and, according to Raymond Fusilier, also against the Belgian Constitution Luc Schepens wrote similar opinions :" The two main casualties of World War I are the Constitution and the parliamentary regime.

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.

Van Zeeland's government resigned in the spring of 1936 due to the agitation of Rexism ( a Belgian fascist party ), but he was able to start a new term ( June 1936-November 1937 ).

The same relative age effect has been noticed in Belgian soccer after 1997, when the start of the selection year was changed from August 1 to January 1 .< ref >

In an interview with Sportweekend ( a sports programme on Belgian Flemish television ), Clijsters said that she was retiring to start a family.

With the start of the Cold War the party started its decline and after the elections of 1985 it was no longer represented in the Belgian Parliament.

" His Newcastle career got off to a flying start as he scored on his home debut in their 1 – 0 win over Belgian side Lokeren in the Intertoto Cup in July.

Pryce started his career in Formula One with the small Token team, making his only start for them at the 1974 Belgian Grand Prix.

Senna comfortably led from start to finish in conditions similar to those in which he won his first Belgian Grand Prix in 1985.

In the second half it was reliable enough to allow Giacomelli to finish all but two of the races, however the year only yielded one points finish for him with a fifth in Germany. Giacomelli was eliminated at the start of the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder when his Alfa Romeo collided with the two ATS cars of Eliseo Salazar and Manfred Winkelhock.

As BRM's test driver he tried to qualify for the 1972 Belgian Grand Prix, but he did not start the race because Helmut Marko drove his car.

Following the start of the genocide and the deaths of several kidnapped Belgian soldiers, Belgium withdrew its contribution to UNAMIR, which was commanded by Canadian Roméo Dallaire ; Dallaire was prohibited from involving the force in the protection of civilians.

At the start of his career, he worked with the Belgian Romantic painter Egide Charles Gustave Wappers ( 1803-1874 ).

In the season 2006 – 07, despite a weak start of the competition, the team managed to reach the fourth place in the Belgian Pro League.

She also did a drawing of Belgian refugees fleeing the Germans at the start of the war.

Following his sophomore year Yi left UCLA to pursue a professional career in Europe ; he signed with Royal Antwerp of the Belgian First Division, a feeder club of Manchester United, before the start of the 2002-3 season.

But, one and a half month after that, he was summoned to return, due to the start of World War II and he left the Army only after the defeat of the Belgian Armed Forces by the German occupant.

At the start of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, General Daine, the commander of the provincial armed forces of Limburg, situated in Maastricht, chose the side of the Belgian rebels.

Instead of embarking on a solo-tour, Henny decides to stretch himself by writing TV and film-scores ( album-track Amstel Hotel 13: 00 is described in the 2000 Doe Maar-biography as an application letter ) and producing for other artists, including Dutch-born Belgian Raymond van het Groenewoud, whose Habba is a fine example of what Doe Maar might have sounded like had they decided to destroy the recordings for the fifth album and start from scratch.

At the start of the 2009-2010 Season, Lierse SK were the major favorites to win the championship in the Belgian second division ( EXQI League ) but when Job arrived, they were struggling in the deciding moments.

But Grand makes an unexpected recovery, and deaths from the plague start to decline.

At the end of the novel, Grand says he is much happier ; he has written to Jeanne and made a fresh start on his book.

At the start of the Grand Gallery on the right-hand side there is a hole cut in the wall ( and now blocked by chicken wire ).

Also at the start of the Grand Gallery there is a Horizontal Passage leading to the " Queen's Chamber ".

The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.

Things looked promising at the start of the season, as the team picked up two points on its Grand Prix debut in Australia when Olivier Panis finished fifth.

Prost became the president of Prost Grand Prix at the start of 1998.

In the late 2010s, the LIRR intends to start service to Grand Central Terminal via the East Side Access project ; provision was made for this route on the lower level of the 63rd Street Tunnel under the East River, which carries the New York City Subway's IND 63rd Street Line ( train ) on its upper level.

Despite his injuries, he competed in the Nations Grand Prix at Monza six days later, winning the race after he had persuaded staff at the hospital to bandage him in a manner such that he could sit on his motorcycle and receive a push start.

At the start of 1934, Nuvolari entered the Monaco Grand Prix in a privately owned Bugatti.

After a late start, he was ordained priest, and Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, sent him as an appropriate ambassador to Pope Pius V, a position which he held for fifteen years.

Later that year, Patrese was involved in a pile-up when he came together with James Hunt and other drivers ' cars at the start of the Italian Grand Prix.

Martini also recorded the team's only front row start: 2nd at the 1990 United States Grand Prix and led a lap during a heroic performance in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix.

He drove for them on their debut in 1985, scored their first point in the 1988 United States Grand Prix, although he had been running 5th for quite a long time during the race until being passed by Tyrrell's Jonathan Palmer, took their only front-row start at 1990 USA Grand Prix ( aided by special Pirelli tyres ; several of their other drivers had surprise qualifying results that day ), their only lap leading a race in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix, where he finished 5th, and scored their joint-best F1 result of 4th.

The season did not start well when Hill spun out of second place shortly after the start of the South African Grand Prix and failed to finish the race after colliding with Alex Zanardi on lap 16.

At the Portuguese Grand Prix, Hill charged to third after having to start from the back having stalled on the warmup lap from pole.

His title defence in 1997 proved unsuccessful, getting off to a poor start when he only narrowly qualified for the Australian Grand Prix, and then retired on the parade lap.

While some assume that this boat followed the Banks dory shape, the Grand Banks cod fisheries for which the Banks dory was designed didn't start operating until the 1830s.

At one point, Caution passes through a place called the Grand Omega Minus, whence brainwashed people are sent out to the other " galaxies " to start strikes, revolutions, family rows and student revolts.