Portal:Belgium/Anniversaries/September/September 6

• 1535: birth of Emanuel van Meteren, historian
• 1881: death of Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Prime Minister of Belgium between 1841 and 1845
• 1884: birth of Julien Lahaut, politician, chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium, murdered in 1950
• 1944 - World War II: the city of Ypres is liberated by Allied forces