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February 23, 1934

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KING ALBERT LAID TO REST BY A SORROWFUL BELGIUM; HIS SON TAKES OATH TODAY; 1,000,000 SEE CORTEGE Throngs Stand Silent Hour Upon Hour as Troops March By. SERVICES AT CATHEDRAL Queen Is lll and Desolate, but Attends -- Two Alpine Guides Sit With Notables. RULER BURIED IN LAEKEN Leopold Will Swear Fealty to Constitution and Take the Throne This Morning. ALBERT IS BURIED BY GRIEVING NATION

By P.j. Philip.wireless To the New York Times.by P.j. Philip

BRUSSELS, Feb. 22. -- No king, possibly, was ever buried amid such deep regret and with such a sense of loss as were shown today at the funeral of King Albert of the Belgians.

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Notable Deaths

Edward Elgar

1934Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (born 1857)[†]

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello, and two symphonies. He also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.

Historical Events

Leopold III of Belgium

1934Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.[†]

Leopold III was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951. At the outbreak of World War II, Leopold tried to maintain Belgian neutrality, but after the German invasion in May 1940, he surrendered his country, earning him much hostility, both at home and abroad.