2013 Event Three months after $50 million in diamonds is stolen at the Brussels Airport, more than 24 people in France, Switzerland and Belgium were detained, and a significant stash of the diamonds and stash recovered 2013 Event At Belgium's Brussels Airport, armed robbers steal untraceable, raw diamonds worth $50 million from a plane within minutes, and without alarming passengers 2011 Event After negotiations in Brussels, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, rejects the invitation to join a European Union financial crisis accord 1998 Event Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium 1994 Event Freddy Thielemans sworn in as mayor of Brussels Belgium 1994 Event "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels 1985 Event Juventus wins 30th Europe Cup 1 in Brussels, 39 die in riot 1985 Event "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 1985 Event Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels 1984 Event King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 Event Brussels princess Astrid marries arch duke Lorenz of Austrian-Este 1983 Event 400,000 demonstrate in Brussels, against cruise missile 1981 Death Naim Chadir, PLO-representative in Brussels, murdered 1979 Event IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market 1977 Event Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19 1976 Event Metroliner official opens in Brussels 1974 Event Bayern Munchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels 1973 Birthday Ingrid Seynhaeve, born in Brussels, Belgium, model, Look of the Year 1991 1972 Birthday Brian Molko, born in Brussels, Belgium, songwriter, guitarist, member of band Placebo, lead vocalist, known for androgynous appearance 1970 Event 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels 1969 Birthday Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer, 1992 McCall 1969 Birthday Florence Descampe, born in Brussels, Belgium, LPGA golfer, 1992 McCall 1967 Event Brussels: NATO-Council accept "Flexible Response"-strategy 1967 Event Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 1966 Event Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established 1966 Event Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels 1965 Event Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels 1965 Event Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels 1960 Event Company Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels 1959 Event Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels 1958 Birthday Jean-Claude Van Damme, Brussels Belgium, actor, Kickboxer, No Retreat 1958 Event Real Madrid wins 3rd Europe Cup 1 in Brussels 1950 Event Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade 1950 Birthday Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor, Brussels by Night 1948 Event France and Great Britain and Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels 1947 Event 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis 1946 Birthday Diane von Furstenberg, Brussels Belgiums, fashion designer 1946 Event Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels 1945 Birthday Martine van Hamel, Brussels Belgium, ballerina, New York City Ballet Co 1945 Event German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels 1944 Event Allies liberate Brussels 1944 Event Tank division of British Guards free Brussels 1940 Birthday Jose Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone, Francois d'Assisif 1940 Event German troops conquer Brussels 1940 Event Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France 1939 Event Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels 1939 Birthday Liz Claiborne, Brussels Belgium, fashion designer, women 1935 Event Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels 1929 Birthday Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady 1926 Birthday Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, Brussels Belgium, cartoonist, Smurfs 1926 Birthday Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor, 1958-62 St. Louis Symph 1924 Death Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, 'Madama Butterfly', dies in Brussels at 65 1922 Event International Geographical Union forms in Brussels 1921 Event 2nd Pan-African Congress meets (London, Brussels and Paris) 1918 Event King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels 1918 Event Brussels free Stofnar 1916 Birthday Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist, Brussels Competition-1938 1916 Death Charles Fryatt, British Captain of SS Brussels, executed by Germans, dies 1914 Event Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels 1914 Event German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp 1914 Event 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) 1910 Event International Exhibition opens in Brussels 1909 Event Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels 1902 Event Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels 1900 Birthday Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor, New York City Ballet 1948-58 1900 Event Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails 1900 Event Jan Blockx's "Tol Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels 1897 Event Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels 1890 Event Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels 1882 Event Henry Morton Stanley returns to Brussels from the Congo 1881 Event Opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels) 1876 Birthday Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor, Brussels, Belgium 1830 Event Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed 1830 Event Dutch troops occupy Brussels 1830 Death Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67 1822 Event King Willem I obligates inhabitants of Brussels to use Dutch language 1821 Event 1st edition of "Courrier of Pays-Bas" newspaper published in Brussels 1820 Birthday Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher, Brussels Cons 1817 Birthday Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist, Brussels 1815 Event King Willem I takes oath in Brussels 1790 Event Austrian army occupies Brussels 1762 Birthday Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator 1746 Event French troops conquer Brussels 1716 Event Decree orders all Jews expelled from Brussels 1708 Event Great Alliance occupies Brussels 1695 Event French troops under Villeroi shoot in Brussels 1580 Death Willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed 1577 Event Treason of Don Juan in Brussels 1568 Event Duke van Alva beheads 18 nobles in Brussels 1567 Event Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium 1565 Event King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels 1564 Event Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels 1522 Event Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches 1514 Birthday Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist, Fabrica 1430 Event Duke Philip the Good of Bourgondy visits Brussels 1404 Event Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established 1389 Death Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, murdered 1370 Event Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium 1349 Event Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
