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1622: at the Battle of Fleurus, the Protestants beat the Catholics in the Thirty Years' War
1862: birth of Maurice Maeterlinck, writer, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature
1906: death of Alfred Stevens, painter
1935: death by car accident of Queen Astrid, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
1981: birth of Émilie Dequenne, actress

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