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2008 Albert Hofmann, dies in Switzerland, of natural causes, at 102
2007 Jean Balissat, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva, dies in Corcelles-le-Jorat, Switzerland 2007 Robert C. Solomon, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 64 2001 Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland 1998 Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich 1997 27th New York City Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland 2:28:43 1995 Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81 1994 U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup 1993 Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern, Switzerland, destroyed by fire 1992 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1) 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 1989 Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland 1986 Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland 1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland 1983 David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73 1983 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1) 1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland) 1982 Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland 1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in 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 1973 BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143 1972 Cathy Caverzasio, born in Switzerland, tennis star 1971 Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam 1971 Paul Ragusa, born in Bulach, Switzerland, Canadian 48 kg freestyle wrestler 1996 Olympics 1970 Marc Rosset, born in Geneva, Switzerland, tennis star, 1992 French Doubles 1970 Emanuela Zardo, born in Switzerland, tennis star 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1969 Jaimie Dawson, born in 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 1966 Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Mark Schmocker, born in Interlaken, Switzerland, U.S. team handball goalie 1996 Olympics 1965 Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland 1965 Claudio Mezzadri, born in Switzerland, tennis star 1963 Bettina Bunge, born in Switzerland, tennis player, Virginia Slims of California 1983 1963 Denise Beillmann, born in Switzerland, figure skater, Olympics-4th-1980 1961 Christiane Jolissaint, born in Switzerland, tennis star 1961 Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Switzerland, poet, dies at 73 1960 Jolanda Egger, born in Luzean, Switzerland, playmate, June, 1983 1959 Heinz Gunthardt, born in Switzerland, tennis star 1958 Francesca Thyssen, born in Lugano, Switzerland, baroness 1957 Kate Burton, born in Geneva, Switzerland, actress, Ice Storm, August 1953 Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80 1952 Boris Blank, born in Switzerland, composer, musician, member of Yello, responsible for unique sound, influenced by Yello members Carlos Peron, Deiter Meier 1951 Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0 1949 Heini Hemmi, born in Switzerland, giant slalom 1976 Olympics gold 1949 England, Belgium, Lux, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel 1948 Luc Bondy, born in Zurich, Switzerland 1948 Patrick Morza, born in Morges, Switzerland, rock keyboardist, Yes 1948 Chester G. Atkins, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1985 - 1993 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 1946 Silvio Blatter, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, writer, teacher, works include, 'Das sanfte Gesetz' or 'The soft law' 1944 Claude Nicollier, born in Vevey, Switzerland, astronaut, STS-61-K, 46, 61, 75 1943 Henri Szeps, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son 1943 Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002 1942 Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 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, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1939 Switzerland proclaims neutrality 1939 Heinz Holliger, born in Langenthal, Switzerland, studied with Pierre Boulez, composer, world's most famous oboe player 1938 Yvonne Ruegg, born in Switzerland, giant slalom 1960 Olympics gold 1936 Jean Balissat, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva 1936 Ursula Andress, born in Berne Switzerland, actress, She, Sensuous Nurse 1936 Ursula Andress, born in Switzerland, actress, She 1935 Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers 1934 U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no) 1934 Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland 1934 Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL 1933 Madeleine M Kunin, born in Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont 1933 Jean Wicki, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1931 Urs Jaeggi, born in Switzerland, painter 1931 Madeline Berthod, born in Switzerland, downhill skier 1956 Olympics gold 1930 Mario Adorf, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Bachelor, Abyssinia 1928 Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland 1927 Robert Abernethy, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Newscaster, NBC News Encore 1927 Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987 1927 Switzerland and U.S.S.R. agree to diplomatic relations 1924 Klaus Huber, born in Bern, Switzerland, composer, wrote music for chamber ensembles orchestra, choirs, soloists, politically conscious composer, received Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2009 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, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit 1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland 1920 Switzerland rejoin League of Nations 1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) 1918 Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 1918 Gottfried von Einem, born in 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, born in Zug, Switzerland, conductor 1911 Richard Torriani, born in Switzerland, took Olympic oath, 1948 1911 Paulette Goddard, Marion Levy, born in Switzerland, actress, Great Dictator 1911 Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed 1910 Soulima Stravinsky, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Russian pianist, Igor's son 1910 Rolf Liebermann, born in Zurich, Switzerland, composer, Leonore 1910 Pierre Musy, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled 1936 Olympics gold 1909 C. Dillon Douglas, born in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961 - 1965 1909 Hans Erni, born in Switzerland, painter and sculptor 1907 Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957 1906 Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic 1906 Albert Hofmann, born in Baden, Switzerland, scientist, first to synthesize, examine, study, the psychedelic effects of 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 1901 Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet 1900 Hans Haug, born in Switzerland, composer, primitivist style, wrote solo guitar piece, Preludio, Tiento et Toccata 1900 World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens 1898 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland 1898 Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings 1898 Alfred Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled, Gold Medal 1924 Olympics 1896 Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland, pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist 1895 Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization 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, born in Switzerland 1888 Grock, born in Switzerland, clown 1887 Le Corbusier, born in Switzerland, architect, city planner, and artist, Urbanisme 1886 Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting 1884 Auguste Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist and explorer, balloonist 1884 Jean Felix Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist, explorer, and balloonist 1883 Ernest Ansermet, born in 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 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland 1880 Ernest Bloch, born in 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 and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946 1874 World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland 1874 Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect 1873 Emil Ermatinger, born in Switzerland, literature historian 1871 Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens 1866 Heinrich Federer, born in Switzerland, writer, Das letzte Stundlein des Papstes 1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph 1857 Ferdinand de Saussure, born in Switzerland, linguist, Cours de Laguistique Generale 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland 1845 Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919 1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902 1833 Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902 1829 Johanna Spyri, born in Switzerland, writer, Heidi 1828 Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901 1827 Arnold Bocklin, born in Switzerland, landscape and allegory painter 1825 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet' 1823 Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives 1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland 1810 Alexandre Calamo, born in Switzerland, painter, etcher and lithographer 1809 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland 1807 Arnold Henry Guyot, born in Switzerland, U.S. geologist, geographer, and meteorologist 1807 Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher 1806 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500 1803 Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland 1798 Republic of Switzerland forms 1761 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, born in Switzerland, U.S. minister of Finance, 1801 - 1814 1760 Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect 1746 Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude, 1746 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, born in Switzerland, educator 1718 Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53 1708 Albrecht von Haller, born in Switzerland, experimental physiology, Academy of Science 1700 Daniel Bernoulli, born in Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, 10 time French award 1648 Switzerland's independence recognized 1618 "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed 1584 Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812) 1583 Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies 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, born in Switzerland, physician and alchemist, or 11/10 1487 Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies 1477 Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed 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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