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• 1568: at the Battle of Jodoigne, the Spanish troops defeated the army of William the Silent (pictured) during the Eighty Years' War
• 1944: birth of Raoul Lambert, soccer player for Club Brugge and the Belgium national football team
• 1946: birth of Lucien Van Impe, cyclist, winner of the Tour de France 1976
• 1956: birth of Alexander Baervoets, choreographer
• 1995: Willy Claes resigns as Secretary General of NATO after allegations of corruption
• 1996: White March in Brussels: more than 300,000 people protest against the problems with the investigation against child molester Marc Dutroux
• 2005: death of Jean-Michel Folon, illustrator, painter and sculptor