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2020 In Switzerland
Events in the year 2020 in Switzerland. Incumbents *President of the Swiss Confederation: Simonetta Sommaruga * President of the National Council: Isabelle Moret * President of the Swiss Council of States: Hans Stöckli Events *9 February – Scheduled date for the first voting in the 2020 Swiss referendums *1 to 2 February – Scheduled date for the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, to be held in Dübendorf *28 April to 3 May – Scheduled date for the road cycling stage race 2020 Tour de Romandie, to be held in Switzerland *25 August 2020 – Raphaël Domjan jumps out of the SolarStratos HB-SXA solar plane in Payerne, Switzerland, with test pilot Miguel Iturmendi in command of the plane, the first jump off of an electric plane and the first free fall in solar history. He dropped several hundred meters and reached a speed of 150kmh. Deaths *1 January – Martin Bundi, historian and politician (born 1932) *7 January – Fritz Hans Schweingruber, dendrochro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Swiss Alps, Alps and the Jura Mountains, Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's Demographics of Switzerland, 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts List of cities in Switzerland, its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh language, Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1932 In Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1932 in Switzerland. Incumbents *Swiss Federal Council, Federal Council: **Giuseppe Motta (President) **Edmund Schulthess **Jean-Marie Musy **Heinrich Häberlin **Marcel Pilet-Golaz **Albert Meyer (politician), Albert Meyer **Rudolf Minger Events *June 16–July 9 – Lausanne Conference of 1932 is held in Switzerland * September 8 – Tannenberg (film), Tannenberg, a Swiss-German war film, is released *1931–32 Nationalliga *Switzerland at the 1932 Summer Olympics *Switzerland at the 1932 Winter Olympics *1932–33 Nationalliga *Geneva Conference (1932) is held Births * January 9 – Émile Ess, rower, (died 1990 in Switzerland, 1990) * February 11 – Kurt Schmid, rower (died 2000 in Switzerland, 2000) * April 9 – Armin Jordan, conductor, (died 2006 in Switzerland, 2006) * July 20 – Alice Fischer (figure skater), Alice Fischer, figure skater (died 2017 in Switzerland, 2017) * July 29 ** Walter Loosli, sculptor, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Switzerland
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recogn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Switzerland
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Switzerland
Events in the year 2020 in Switzerland. Incumbents *President of the Swiss Confederation: Simonetta Sommaruga * President of the National Council: Isabelle Moret * President of the Swiss Council of States: Hans Stöckli Events *9 February – Scheduled date for the first voting in the 2020 Swiss referendums *1 to 2 February – Scheduled date for the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, to be held in Dübendorf *28 April to 3 May – Scheduled date for the road cycling stage race 2020 Tour de Romandie, to be held in Switzerland *25 August 2020 – Raphaël Domjan jumps out of the SolarStratos HB-SXA solar plane in Payerne, Switzerland, with test pilot Miguel Iturmendi in command of the plane, the first jump off of an electric plane and the first free fall in solar history. He dropped several hundred meters and reached a speed of 150kmh. Deaths *1 January – Martin Bundi, historian and politician (born 1932) *7 January – Fritz Hans Schweingruber, dendrochro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1939 In Switzerland
Events during the year 1939 in Switzerland. Incumbents * Federal Council: **Philipp Etter (president) ** Giuseppe Motta ** Johannes Baumann ** Hermann Obrecht ** Marcel Pilet-Golaz ** Albert Meyer (until December), then Ernst Wetter ** Rudolf Minger Events * 27–29 January – The men's events of the 1939 European Figure Skating Championships take place in Davos. Births * 18 May – Doris Ramseier, equestrian * 18 October – Flavio Cotti, politician (died 2020) Deaths * 15 October – Robert Haab, politician (born 1865) 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 ... 1930s in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flavio Cotti
Flavio Cotti (18 October 193916 December 2020) was a Swiss politician who served as member of the Federal Council from 1986 to 1999. He was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party from the canton of Ticino. In the 1990s, Cotti led the Swiss government's unsuccessful attempts to further Switzerland's political integration into the European Union. He was President of the Confederation in 1991 and 1998 and headed the departments of Home Affairs and Foreign Affairs. Early life and political career Cotti was born in Muralto. After studies of law in Fribourg, he practised law in Locarno and pursued a political career in his native Ticino. In 1962, he headed the newly founded ''Partito popolare democratico ticinese''. In 1981 he was elected president of the cantonal Christian Democratic Party, and served as president of the national party from 1981 to 1984. Cotti was a member of the cantonal parliament from 1962 to 1975. He was elected to the cantonal government of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1933 In Switzerland
The following is a list of events, births, and deaths in 1933 in Switzerland. Incumbents *Swiss Federal Council, Federal Council: **Giuseppe Motta **Edmund Schulthess (President) **Jean-Marie Musy **Heinrich Häberlin **Marcel Pilet-Golaz **Albert Meyer (politician), Albert Meyer **Rudolf Minger Events *Berne Trial is in progress until 1935 *1932–33 Nationalliga *1933–34 Nationalliga *Schurter is established (incorporated 1949) *Giro del Mendrisiotto, a Swiss bike race, is founded *Tour de Suisse, a Swiss bike race, is founded *Integra-Signum, a Swiss train protection system, is established Births January *January 6 – Emil Steinberger (actor), Emil Steinberger, comedian, director and writer *January 28 – Fred Mayer (photographer), Fred Mayer, photographer February *February 27 – Livio Vacchini, architect (died 2007 in Switzerland, 2007) March *March 14 – René Felber, politician (died 2020 in Switzerland, 2020) *March 27 – Oskar von Büren, cyclist June *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Felber
René Felber (14 March 1933 – 18 October 2020) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1987 to 1993. In 1992, he served as the president of Switzerland. Personal life Born 1933 in Bienne, Felber was a teacher in Boudevilliers and Le Locle (canton of Neuchâtel). Felber died on 18 October 2020 at the age of 87. Political career He was mayor of Le Locle from 1964 to 1980 (in charge of gas and electricity supply and then of Finance), member of the Cantonal Parliament of Neuchâtel (1965–1976). He sat in the National Council from 1967 to 1981 when he became a member of the Conseil d'Etat (State Council) of the canton of Neuchâtel in charge of the Finance Department until his election to the Federal Council. In 1980/81, he was the floor leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Federal Parliament. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 9 December 1987 as member of the Canton of Neuchâtel and for the Social Democratic Party. Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Switzerland
Events during the year 1920 in Switzerland. Incumbents *Swiss Federal Council, Federal Council: **Giuseppe Motta (president) **Edmund Schulthess **Robert Haab **Karl Scheurer **Jean-Marie Musy **Ernest Chuard **Heinrich Häberlin Events * 10 January – The League of Nations is established with Switzerland as one of its founding members and its headquarters established in Geneva. * 15 November – The first convention of the League of Nations takes place in Geneva with 41 member states in attendance. Births * 19 June – Antoinette Meyer, alpine skier (died 2010 in Switzerland, 2010) * 24 December – Edy Reinalter, alpine skier (died 1962 in Austria) Deaths * 12 February – Adolf Frey (writer), Adolf Frey – writer and historian (born 1855 in Switzerland, 1855) References {{Years in Switzerland 1920 in Switzerland, 1920 by country, Switzerland 1920 in Europe, Switzerland 1920s in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aenne Goldschmidt
Aenne Goldschmidt ( Michel; 8 November 1920 – 24 January 2020) was a Swiss expressionist dancer, choreographer, and pedagogue. She was the first dance artist to receive the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic. Biography Aenne Michel was born on 8 November 1920 in Bern, Switzerland. She trained at Emmy Sauerbeck's dance school in Bern and worked as a freelance dance artist. In the 1930s and 1940s she was active in Communist circles, even after the Communist Party was banned by the Swiss government. In 1944 she and her husband, musicologist Harry Goldschmidt, were among the founding members of the Swiss Party of Labour. Due to their communist views they left Switzerland and moved to East Germany in 1949. Later that year she choreographed a piece for the World Festival of Youth and Students in Budapest. In 1952 she was awarded the National Prize of the German Democratic Republic for her work at the 1951 World Festival in East Berlin, becoming the first dancer t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 In Switzerland
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 ** Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. ** British security forces in West Germany arrest 7 members of the Naumann Circle, a clandestine Neo-Nazi organization. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record is never broken. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Uprising: Rebels in Kenya kill th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
