1958 in Belgium

1958
in
Belgium

Decades:
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
See also:Other events of 1958
List of years in Belgium

Events in the year 1958 in Belgium.

Incumbents

MonarchBaudouin[1]
Prime MinisterAchille Van Acker (to 26 June); Gaston Eyskens (from 26 June)

Events

January
February
  • 3 February – Treaty creating Benelux Economic Union signed, to come into force 1 November 1960, providing for free movement of workers, capital, services, and goods between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.[3]
March
April
May
June
July
September
  • 9 September – USS Skate (SSN-578) ceremonially welcomed in Zeebrugge after its Arctic mission.[2]:906
  • 25 September – Belgian government intervenes to reduce the price of Belgian coal, with 7,855,000 tonnes stockpiled but uncompetitively expensive on international markets.[2]:906
October
November
  • 6 November – Political agreement reached on post-war reforms to educational policy, ending a period of contention known as the "Second School War".
  • 28 November – Patrice Lumumba declares in Léopoldville that "Independence is not a gift of Belgium but a fundamental right of the Congolese people."[2]:904
December

Publications

  • Léon Kochnitzky, Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (New York, Belgian Government Information Center)[6]

Performances

May
June
August

Film

  • Nature documentary Les Seigneurs de la forêt[2]:907 – English version with narration by Orson Welles distributed internationally by 20th Century Fox as Lords of the Forest (UK) or Masters of the Congo Jungle (US)

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. "Baudouin I | king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).
  3. H.F. van Panhuys, L.J. Brinkhorst, and H.H. Maas (eds.), International Organisation and Integration (Deventer and Leyden, 1968), p. 978.
  4. Gonzague Pluvinage, Expo 58: Between Utopia and Reality (Racine, 2008)
  5. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1958/pire-lecture.html
  6. https://archive.org/details/NegroArtInTheBelgianCongo
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