Events from the year 1946 in Belgium
Incumbents Monarch: Leopold III Regent: Prince Charles Prime Minister: Achille Van Acker (to 13 March) Paul-Henri Spaak (13 March to 31 March) Achille Van Acker (31 March to 3 August) Camille Huysmans (from 3 August)
Events 10 January – Paul-Henri Spaak was elected as the first President of the UN General Assembly 17 February – Legislative elections 24 February – Provincial elections 12 April – Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator October – École Royale Technique de la Force Aérienne established outside Sint-Truiden 24 November – Municipal elections
Publications Fernand Baudhuin, Histoire économique de la Belgique, 1914-1939 (Brussels, E. Bruylant) Jan Albert Goris, The Growth of the Belgian Nation (New York, N.Y., Belgian Government Information Center) Joseph Lefèvre, L'Angleterre et la Belgique à travers les cinq derniers siècles Katharine Roberts, And the bravest of these (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company)
Births
Deaths 21 February – José Streel (born 1911), journalist and Nazi collaborator 22 September – Marguerite Putsage (born 1868), painter
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