Events of the year 1932 in Belgium.
Incumbents
Monarch Albert I Prime Minister Jules Renkin (to 22 October) Charles de Broqueville (from 22 October)
Events
27 June to 10 September – Ten weeks of strikes in the Borinage to protest against economic conditions. 9 October – Municipal elections 18 October – Jules Renkin offers his resignation as prime minister 27 November – Legislative election returns Catholic Party majority 4 December – Provincial elections
Publications Franz Hellens, Poésie de la veille et du lendemain Hergé, Tintin en Amérique (serialised 1931–1932) published as an album
Art and architecture Paintings René Magritte, The Universe Unmasked
Cinema La Nuit du Carrefour (France), Jean Renoir's adaptation of Georges Simenon's La Nuit du carrefour (1931)
Business Lotus Bakeries established
Births 17 January – Roger Lallemand, politician (died 2016) 11 March – Piet Van Brabant, journalist (died 2006) 18 March – Arthur Luysterman, bishop of Ghent 23 March – Bettina Le Beau, actress (died 2015) 31 March – Jean-Pierre Grafé, politician (died 2019) 29 June – Evrard Godefroid, cyclist (died 2013) 4 July – Aurèle Vandendriessche, marathon runner 20 August – Claude Wallet, Olympic fencer (died 2021) 27 August – François Glorieux, musician (died 2023) 4 October – Étienne Davignon, politician 6 November – François Englert, theoretical physicist 23 November – Solange Berry, singer 16 December – Karel Oomen, wrestler 20 December – Carla Walschap, writer and teacher
Deaths 17 February – Fredegand Cogels (born 1850), politician 10 April – Jean-François Heymans (born 1859), pharmacologist 19 April – Edgard Colle (born 1897), chess master 24 June – Guy Reyntiens (born 1880), Olympic equestrian 25 July – Cyriel Buysse (born 1859), playwright 20 August – Émile Mathieu (born 1844), composer 27 August – Ursmer Berlière (born 1861), monastic historian 29 September – Émile van Ermengem (born 1851), bacteriologist 7 October – Eugène Broerman (born 1861), painter 28 October – Joseph Dejardin (born 1873), trade unionist
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