1946 in Belgium explained

Events from the year 1946 in Belgium

Incumbents

• Monarch

Leopold III, with Prince Charles as regent

• 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^[1]
• 17 February – Legislative elections
• 24 February – Provincial elections
• 12 April – Flemish nationalist leader August Borms executed by firing squad as a collaborator^[2]
• 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)
• Katharine Roberts, And the bravest of these (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company)

Deaths

• 22 September – Marguerite Putsage (born 1868), painter

Notes and References

1. Web site: 10 January 2023 . Today in History: Paul-Henri Spaak elected first President of the UN General Assembly . 2023-11-22 . www.brusselstimes.com . en.
2. Book: Littlejohn, David . The patriotic traitors: a history of collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940 - 45 . 1972 . Heinemann . 978-0-434-42725-3 . London . 183.