Count of Flanders (born 1903)

Prince Charles

Prince Charles, Count of Flanders was a member of the Belgian royal family who served as regent of Belgium from 1944 until 1950, while a judicial commission investigated his elder brother, King Leopold III of Belgium, as to whether he betrayed the Allies of World War II by an allegedly premature surrender in 1940 and collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium. Charles' regency ended when Leopold was allowed to return to Belgium. Shortly after returning and resuming his monarchical duties, Leopold abdicated in favour of his son, Baudouin.

Born

1903

October 10

Died

1983

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1900s

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Key dates

1903 Born
1983 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

19 The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.
680 The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.
732 Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.
1471 Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.

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The world in 1903

When Prince arrived

april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on October 10

Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1974– American race car driver and actor Daniel Pearl 1963– American-Israeli journalist (died 2002) David Lee Roth 1954– American singer-songwriter and producer Ed Wood 1924–1978 American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924) Geno Smith 1990– American football player Harold Pinter 1930–2008 English playwright, screenwriter, director, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1930) Jean-Antoine Watteau 1684–1721 French painter (born 1684) Jessica Harper 1949– American actress Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941–1995 Nigerian author and activist (born 1941)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1903

Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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