2001 Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland
1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
1994 U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup
1992 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)
1992 David Bowie and model Iman marry in Switzerland
1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1991 Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18
1990 Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland
1983 David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
1979 Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe 1997
1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
1978 Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland
1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1972 Cathy Caverzasio, Switzerland, tennis star
1971 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
1970 Emanuela Zardo, born in Switzerland, tennis star
1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
1969 Jaimie Dawson, Geneva, Switzerland, Canadian badminton player 1996 Olympics
1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland
1968 Thomas Nock, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars
1966 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
1966 Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die
1966 Chantal Daucourt, born in Bienne, Switzerland, mountain cyclist, world-bronze-95
1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
1965 Claudio Mezzadri, born in Switzerland, tennis star
1961 Christiane Jolissaint, Switzerland, tennis star
1959 Heinz Gunthardt, Switzerland, tennis star
1957 Kate Burton, born in Geneva, Switzerland, actress, Ice Storm, August
1951 Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0
1949 Heini Hemmi, born in Switzerland, giant slalom 1976 Olympics gold
1948 Luc Bondy, born in Zurich, Switzerland
1948 Patrick Morza, born in Morges, Switzerland, rock keyboardist, Yes
1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1946 Erich Scharer, born in Switzerland, 2 man bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold
1944 Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut, STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75
1943 Henri SZEPS, Lausanne Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son
1941 Willy Lewis' U.S. jazz band performs in Switzerland
1941 Bruno Ganz, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Strapless, Wings of Desire
1941 James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58
1940 Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland
1940 Edy Hubacher, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Olympics gold 1972
1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality
1938 Yvonne Ruegg, Switzerland, giant slalom 1960 Olympics gold
1936 Ursula Andress, born in Berne Switzerland, actress, She, Sensuous Nurse
1936 Ursula Andress, born in Switzerland, actress, She
1934 Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor, PASCAL
1933 Madeleine M Kunin, Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont
1933 Jean Wicki, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Olympics gold 1972
1931 Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier 1956 Olympics gold
1930 Mario Adorf, Zurich Switzerland, actor, Bachelor, Abyssinia
1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland
1928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland
1927 Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987
1927 Switzerland and U.S.S.R. agree to diplomatic relations
1923 John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)
1922 Jacques Piccard, born in Switzerland, undersea explorer, bathyscaph Trieste
1922 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland
1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist, Visit
1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1920 Switzerland rejoin League of Nations
1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1918 Gottfried von Einem, Bern Switzerland, Austrian composer, Dantons Tod
1917 Kurt Kreuger, born in St. Moritz, Switzerland, actor, Fear, Unfaithfully Yours
1917 Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd
1916 Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1915 Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland
1915 Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
1911 Richard Torriani, Switzerland, took Olympic oath, 1948
1911 Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1910 Rolf Liebermann, Zurich Switzerland, composer, Leonore
1910 Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled 1936 Olympics gold
1907 Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957
1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1906 Albert Hofmann, Switzerland, chemist, discovered LSD
1905 Henrich Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold
1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
1903 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated
1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens
1898 Alfred Schlappi, Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold
1896 Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
1895 Michel Simon, born in Geneva, Switzerland
1893 Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1890 Frank Martin, born in Geneva, Switzerland, composer, In Terra Fax
1889 Enrico Celio, president, Switzerland
1888 Grock, Switzerland, clown
1887 Le Corbusier, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist, Urbanisme
1886 Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author, Action in Waiting
1884 Auguste Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer, balloonist
1884 Jean Felix Piccard, Switzerland, scientist/explorer, balloonist
1883 Ernest Ansermet, Vevey Switzerland, conductor, Ruilles de Printemps
1882 Felix Locher, born in Switzerland, actor, Frankenstein's Daughter
1882 St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens
1880 Ernest Bloch, Geneva Switzerland, composer, MacBeth
1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed
1879 Paul Klee, born in Switzerland, abstract painter, Twittering Machine,
1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist/poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946
1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland
1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens
1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
1845 Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919
1833 Elie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist, Nobel 1902
1829 Johanna Spyri, born in Switzerland, writer, Heidi
1827 Arnold Bocklin, Switzerland, landscape/allegory painter
1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
1807 Arnold Henry Guyot, Switzerland, U.S. geologist/geographer/meteorologist
1807 Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
1803 Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland
1798 Republic of Switzerland forms
1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude,
1746 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Switzerland, educator
1728 Johann Lambert, Switzerland, mathematician, proved ã is irrational
1648 Switzerland's independence recognized
1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed
1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)
1558 Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland
1535 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland
1516 Konrad von Gesner, born in Zurich, Switzerland, naturalist, Bibliotheca Universalis
1493 Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist, or 11/10
1487 Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies
1476 Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland
1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses
1348 Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells
1294 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
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