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Belgium-related evens during 2021
Events in the year 2021 in
Belgium.
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing –
COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium
- 4 to 5 May –
DDOS attack on
Belnet disrupts accessibility of
websites using the
.be domain, including those of the
government,
parliament,
police, educational and research institutions, healthcare, and public broadcasters,
[3]
[4] forcing the postponement of parliamentary hearings relating to the
persecution of Uyghurs in China.
[5]
- 17 May to 20 June –
Manhunt for Jürgen Conings, a soldier and suspected
far-right extremist, goes
on the run with several
rocket launchers and a
machine gun, leaving letters with threats against
politicians,
virologists and the
army command. He shoots himself dead.
[6]
[7] Hundreds of police officers and soldiers combed
Hoge Kempen National Park without success.
[8]
[9]
- 12 June –
Belgium national football team beats
Russia 3–0 in their first match of
UEFA Euro 2020 at
Saint Petersburg Stadium.
Romelu Lukaku scores two goals and
Thomas Meunier one.
[10]
- 18 June –
A school under construction collapses in
Antwerp, killing 5 workers.
[11]
- 14 July – Record rainfall causes beginning of
2021 European floods in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and then Germany.
[12]
- 19 to 22 September – The
2021 UCI Road World Championships is held in the
Flanders region.
[13]
Deaths
- 7 January –
Jan Blommaert, sociolinguist and linguistic anthropologist (born 1961).
[14]
- 13 January –
Joël Robert, motocross racer, six-time
world champion (born 1943).
[15]
- 22 January –
Élisabeth Burdot, journalist (born 1940)
- 10 February –
Luc Versteylen, Jesuit (born 1927)
- 19 February – Leopold Lippens, politician (born 1941)
- 12 March – Jos Van Gorp, actor (born 1939)
- 21 April –
Henri Mouton, politician (born 1933)
- 20 May –
Johan Weyts, politician (born 1939)
- 26 May – Lambert Kelchtermans, politician (born 1929)
- 1 June –
Paula Sémer, broadcaster (born 1925)
- 7 June –
Dixie Dansercoer, explorer and photographer (born 1962)
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