1979 in Belgium
Events in the year 1979 in Belgium.
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Incumbents
    
- Monarch: Baudouin[1]
 - Prime Minister: Paul Vanden Boeynants (to 3 April); Wilfried Martens (from 3 April)
 
Events
    
- 13 June – In Marckx v Belgium the European Court of Human Rights finds for the plaintiff, Paula Marckx, that Belgian inheritance law is unfair to unmarried mothers and their children.
 - 25 June – Red Army Faction fail to assassinate Alexander Haig, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, with a bomb in Casteau
 
Publications
    
- Rita Lejeune and Jacques Stiennon (eds.), La Wallonie, le Pays et les Hommes: Lettres, Arts, Culture, vol. 2 (La Renaissance du Livre, Brussels)
 
Births
    
- 19 March – Stan Van Samang, actor and singer
 
Deaths
    
- 11 February – Marie Delcourt (born 1891), classicist
 - 25 February – Marguerite Massart (born 1900), engineer
 - 10 May – Louis Paul Boon (born 1912), novelist
 
References
    
- "Baudouin I, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica.
 
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