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1924 In Switzerland ...
The following events, births, and deaths happened in Switzerland in the year 1924. Incumbents * Federal Council: **Ernest Chuard (president) ** Giuseppe Motta ** Edmund Schulthess ** Jean-Marie Musy **Heinrich Häberlin **Robert Haab **Karl Scheurer Births * 3 March – Lys Assia, singer (died 2018) * 17 March – Hans Bänninger, ice hockey player (died 2007) * 24 June – Kurt Furgler, politician (died 2008) * 8 October – Alphons Egli, politician (died 2016) Deaths * 29 December – Carl Spitteler, poet (died 1845) References {{Year in Europe, 1924 1920s in Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Bänninger
Hans Bänninger (17 March 1924 – 22 August 2007) was an ice hockey player for the Swiss national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (; ; ; ) and commonly known as St. Moritz 1948 (; ), were a winter multi-sport event held from 30 January to 8 February 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the .... In 2020 he was introduced in to the IIHF All-Time Switzerland Team. References External links * 1924 births 2007 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland Olympic ice hockey players for Switzerland Olympic medalists in ice hockey ZSC Lions players {{Switzerland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920s In Switzerland
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number) * One of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (1987 film), a 1987 science fiction film * '' 19-Nineteen'', a 2009 South Korean film * '' Diciannove'', a 2024 Italian drama film informally referred to as "Nineteen" in some sources Science * Potassium, an alkali metal * 19 Fortuna, an asteroid Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle * "Stone in Focus", officially "#19", a composition by Aphex Twin * "Nineteen", a song from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' by Bad4Good * "Nineteen", a song from the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Switzerland ...
The following events, births, and deaths happened in Switzerland in the year 1924. Incumbents * Federal Council: **Ernest Chuard (president) ** Giuseppe Motta ** Edmund Schulthess ** Jean-Marie Musy **Heinrich Häberlin **Robert Haab **Karl Scheurer Births * 3 March – Lys Assia, singer (died 2018) * 17 March – Hans Bänninger, ice hockey player (died 2007) * 24 June – Kurt Furgler, politician (died 2008) * 8 October – Alphons Egli, politician (died 2016) Deaths * 29 December – Carl Spitteler, poet (died 1845) References {{Year in Europe, 1924 1920s in Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845
Events January–March * January 1 – The Philippines began reckoning Asian dates by hopping the International Date Line through skipping Tuesday, December 31, 1844. That time zone shift was a reform made by Governor–General Narciso Claveria on August 16, 1844, in order to align the local calendars in the country with the rest of Asia as trade interests with Imperial China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring countries increased, after Mexico became independent in 1821. The reform also applied to Caroline Islands, Guam, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, and Palau as part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines. * January 10 – Elizabeth Barrett receives a love letter from the younger poet Robert Browning; on May 20, they meet for the first time in London. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * January 23 – The United States Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, which will henceforth be held on the first Tuesday after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic ''Olympian Spring''". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems. Biography Spitteler was born in Liestal. His father was an official of the government, being Federal Secretary of the Treasury from 1849 to 1856. Young Spitteler attended the gymnasium at Basel, having among his teachers philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and historian Jacob Burckhardt. From 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865–1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel, though when a position as pastor was offered him, he felt that he must decline it. He had begun to realize his mission as an epic poet and therefore refused to work in the field for which he had prepared himself. Later he worked in Russia as tutor, starting from August 1871, remaining there (with some periods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In Switzerland
The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Switzerland. Incumbents * Federal Council: **Doris Leuthard **Guy Parmelin **Ueli Maurer ** Didier Burkhalter **Johann Schneider-Ammann (President) **Simonetta Sommaruga **Alain Berset Events * April 2–April 11 – The 2016 World Men's Curling Championship takes place in Basel. * June 1 – The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the world's longest and deepest railway tunnel, is opened following two decades of construction work. *December 18–December 19 – An attacker murders one man before shooting 3 people at an Islamic center in downtown Zürich. Deaths * 31 January – Benoît Violier, French-Swiss chef (born 1971 in France) * 5 August – Alphons Egli, politician (born 1924) References 2010s in Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphons Egli
Alphons Blasius Egli colloquially Alphons Egli (8 October 1924 – 5 August 2016) was a Swiss attorney and politician who most notably served on the Federal Council (Switzerland) between 1983 and 1987 and as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1986 for the Christian Democratic People's Party. Early life and education Alphons Blasius Egli was born 8 October 1924 in Lucerne, Switzerland, the fifth of six children, to Gotthard Egli (1884–1979), an attorney and politician, and Lea Egli (née Amrhyn). He was raised in a Catholic family on Musegg (abutting the old city walls). Two of his siblings died in early childhood. He had three surviving sisters; Lea Korner (née Egli), Elisabeth Egli and Beatrix Egli. He was educated in the local schools upon completition of primary school. He then was sent to boarding schools, including Engelberg Abbey School and the Abbey School of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune in Valais. He completed his Matura at the Cantonal School of Lucerne. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Switzerland
Events during the year 2008 in Switzerland. Incumbents * Federal Council: **Pascal Couchepin (president) ** Moritz Leuenberger ** Samuel Schmid (until December), then Ueli Maurer ** Micheline Calmy-Rey **Hans-Rudolf Merz **Doris Leuthard **Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf Events * 27 August – Anna Göldi, who was beheaded in 1782 for witchcraft, is exonerated by the parliament of the Canton of Glarus. * 10 September – The Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is switched on at CERN, in Geneva. Deaths * 29 April – Albert Hofmann, chemist (born 1906) * 23 July – Kurt Furgler, politician (born 1924) References {{Years in Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ... 2000s in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Furgler
Kurt Furgler (24 June 1924 – 23 July 2008) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1972–1986). He was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on 8 December 1971 and handed over office on 31 December 1986. He was affiliated to the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland. During his office time he held the following departments: *Federal Department of Justice and Police (1972–1982) *Federal Department of Economic Affairs (1983–1986) He was President of the Confederation three times in 1977, 1981 and 1985. Kurt Furgler was born and raised in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He studied Jurisprudence in Fribourg, Zürich, and Geneva, and was an avid handball player during his youth. In 1948, he obtained his license to practice law in St. Gallen. As a conservative centrist in the Federal Council of Switzerland, he advocated equal rights for women, and initiated economic reforms and modernized immigration and Swiss family law. During his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 In Switzerland
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. 7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Evolution of the Arabic digit For early Brahmi numerals, 7 was written more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted (ᒉ). The western Arab peoples' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arab peoples developed the digit from a form that looked something like 6 to one that looked like an uppercase V. Both modern Arab forms influenced the European form, a two-stroke form cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Switzerland
Events in the year 2018 in Switzerland. Incumbents *President of the Swiss Confederation: Alain Berset *List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland, President of the National Council: Dominique de Buman *List of Presidents of the Swiss Council of States, President of the Swiss Council of States: Karin Keller-Sutter Events * 23 September – The Canton of St Gallen become the second canton in Switzerland to vote in favor of a ban on facial coverings in public with two-thirds casting a ballot in favor. Sports *9 to 25 February – Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Olympics , Switzerland participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, with 166 competitors in 14 sports *9 to 18 March – Switzerland at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, Switzerland participated at the 2018 Winter Paralympics in PyeongChang, South Korea Deaths *9 January – Kurt Thalmann, footballer (b. 1931) *10 January – Urs Fankhauser, rower (b. 1943) *16 January – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
