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2013 Event - Three months after $50 million in diamonds is stolen at the Brussels Airport, more than 24 people in France, Switzerland and Belgium were detained, and a significant stash of the diamonds and stash recovered

2013 Event - Davos, Switzerland hosts its 2013 World Economic Forum

2013 Event - After pleading guilty to a U.S. case of tax evasion, Wegelin and Co., the oldest bank in Switzerland, closes; the bank faces a fine of $57.8 million

2011 Event - The 41st World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, Switzerland

2010 Death - Famous Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland dies in Switzerland at age 83, after a lengthy illness

2010 Event - Extreme cold temperatures across Europe lead to 122 deaths in Poland, 7 die in Switzerland as the result of an avalanche

2008 Death - Albert Hofmann, dies in Switzerland, of natural causes, at 102

2007 Death - Jean Balissat, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva, dies in Corcelles-le-Jorat, Switzerland

2007 Death - Robert C. Solomon, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 64

2001 Event - Eleven die after two trucks collide, head on, in a mountain tunnel in Switzerland

1998 Event - Switzerland's 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich

1997 Event - 27th New York City Women Marathon won by Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland 2:28:43

1995 Death - Nello Celio, president of Switzerland (1972), dies at 81

1994 Event - U.S. ties Switzerland 1-1 in their 1st game of 1994 soccer World Cup

1993 Event - Historical Kapelbrug in Luzern, Switzerland, destroyed by fire

1992 Event - 81st Davis Cup: USA beats Switzerland in Fort Worth (3-1)

1992 Event - David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland

1991 Event - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18

1990 Death - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78

1989 Death - 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 Death - 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 Event - Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland

1983 Death - David Niven, actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at 73

1983 Event - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats Germany in Zurich, Switzerland (2-1)

1982 Event - Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)

1982 Event - Polish dissidents seize Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland

1981 Birthday - Roger Federer, born in Wollerau, Switzerland, professional tennis player, ranked number one in the World in March 2010, many consider him the greatest tennis player of all time

1979 Event - Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland

1979 Birthday - Melanie Winiger, Miss Switzerland Universe 1997

1979 Event - Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established

1978 Event - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland

1977 Death - Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88

1973 Event - BEA flight to Basel, Switzerland, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143

1972 Birthday - Cathy Caverzasio, born in Switzerland, tennis star

1971 Event - Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam

1971 Birthday - Paul Ragusa, born in Bulach, Switzerland, Canadian 48 kg freestyle wrestler 1996 Olympics

1970 Birthday - Marc Rosset, born in Geneva, Switzerland, tennis star, 1992 French Doubles

1970 Birthday - Emanuela Zardo, born in Switzerland, tennis star

1970 Event - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)

1969 Birthday - Jaimie Dawson, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Canadian badminton player 1996 Olympics

1969 Event - PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland

1968 Birthday - Thomas Nock, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars

1966 Event - Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland

1966 Event - Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die

1966 Birthday - Chantal Daucourt, born in Bienne, Switzerland, mountain cyclist, world-bronze-95

1966 Death - Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79

1966 Birthday - Mark Schmocker, born in Interlaken, Switzerland, U.S. team handball goalie 1996 Olympics

1965 Event - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland

1965 Birthday - Claudio Mezzadri, born in Switzerland, tennis star

1963 Birthday - Bettina Bunge, born in Switzerland, tennis player, Virginia Slims of California 1983

1963 Birthday - Denise Beillmann, born in Switzerland, figure skater, Olympics-4th-1980

1961 Birthday - Christiane Jolissaint, born in Switzerland, tennis star

1961 Death - Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Sauser-Hall, Switzerland, poet, dies at 73

1960 Birthday - Jolanda Egger, born in Luzean, Switzerland, playmate, June, 1983

1959 Birthday - Heinz Gunthardt, born in Switzerland, tennis star

1958 Birthday - Francesca Thyssen, born in Lugano, Switzerland, baroness

1957 Birthday - Kate Burton, born in Geneva, Switzerland, actress, Ice Storm, August

1953 Death - Emil Ermatinger, Switzerland, literature critic, dies at 80

1952 Birthday - Boris Blank, born in Switzerland, composer, musician, member of Yello, responsible for unique sound, influenced by Yello members Carlos Peron, Deiter Meier

1951 Birthday - Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0

1949 Birthday - Heini Hemmi, born in Switzerland, giant slalom 1976 Olympics gold

1949 Event - England, Belgium, Lux, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel

1948 Birthday - Luc Bondy, born in Zurich, Switzerland

1948 Birthday - Patrick Morza, born in Morges, Switzerland, rock keyboardist, Yes

1948 Birthday - Chester G. Atkins, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1985 - 1993

1948 Event - 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland

1948 Event - 5th Winter Olympic games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland

1946 Birthday - Erich Scharer, born in Switzerland, 2 man bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold

1946 Birthday - Silvio Blatter, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, writer, teacher, works include, 'Das sanfte Gesetz' or 'The soft law'

1944 Birthday - Claude Nicollier, born in Vevey, Switzerland, astronaut, STS-61-K, 46, 61, 75

1943 Birthday - Henri Szeps, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son

1943 Birthday - Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002

1942 Birthday - Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide

1941 Event - Willy Lewis' U.S. jazz band performs in Switzerland

1941 Birthday - Bruno Ganz, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Strapless, Wings of Desire

1941 Death - James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58

1940 Event - Dutch Premier De Geer vacations in Switzerland

1940 Birthday - Edy Hubacher, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1939 Event - Switzerland proclaims neutrality

1939 Birthday - Heinz Holliger, born in Langenthal, Switzerland, studied with Pierre Boulez, composer, world's most famous oboe player

1938 Birthday - Yvonne Ruegg, born in Switzerland, giant slalom 1960 Olympics gold

1936 Birthday - Jean Balissat, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, composer, professor of composition and orchestration, University of Geneva

1936 Birthday - Ursula Andress, born in Berne Switzerland, actress, She, Sensuous Nurse

1936 Birthday - Ursula Andress, born in Switzerland, actress, She

1935 Birthday - 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 Event - U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no)

1934 Birthday - Adolf Muschg, born in Zollikon, canton of Zurich, writer, German language and literature professor, wrote provocative works, including If Auschwitz is in Switzerland

1934 Birthday - Niklaus Wirth, born in Switzerland, computer programmer and inventor, PASCAL

1933 Birthday - Madeleine M Kunin, born in Switzerland, Gov-D-Vt, 1st Jewish Governor of Vermont

1933 Birthday - Jean Wicki, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1931 Birthday - Urs Jaeggi, born in Switzerland, painter

1931 Birthday - Madeline Berthod, born in Switzerland, downhill skier 1956 Olympics gold

1930 Birthday - Mario Adorf, born in Zurich, Switzerland, actor, Bachelor, Abyssinia

1928 Death - Henrich Federer, Switzerland, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61

1928 Event - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland

1928 Event - 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland

1927 Birthday - Robert Abernethy, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Newscaster, NBC News Encore

1927 Birthday - Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987

1927 Event - Switzerland and U.S.S.R. agree to diplomatic relations

1924 Birthday - 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 Event - John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland)

1922 Birthday - Jacques Piccard, born in Switzerland, undersea explorer, bathyscaph Trieste

1922 Event - 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland

1921 Birthday - Friedrich Durrenmatt, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit

1920 Event - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

1920 Event - Switzerland rejoin League of Nations

1919 Event - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)

1918 Death - Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60

1918 Birthday - Gottfried von Einem, born in Bern, Switzerland, Austrian composer, Dantons Tod

1917 Birthday - Kurt Kreuger, born in St. Moritz, Switzerland, actor, Fear, Unfaithfully Yours

1917 Event - Lenin leaves Switzerland for Petrograd

1916 Event - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland

1915 Event - Anti-war conference in Zimmerwald, Switzerland

1915 Birthday - Dean Dixon, born in Zug, Switzerland, conductor

1911 Birthday - Richard Torriani, born in Switzerland, took Olympic oath, 1948

1911 Birthday - Paulette Goddard, Marion Levy, born in Switzerland, actress, Great Dictator

1911 Event - Lotschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed

1910 Birthday - Soulima Stravinsky, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Russian pianist, Igor's son

1910 Birthday - Rolf Liebermann, born in Zurich, Switzerland, composer, Leonore

1910 Birthday - Pierre Musy, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled 1936 Olympics gold

1909 Birthday - C. Dillon Douglas, born in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961 - 1965

1909 Birthday - Hans Erni, born in Switzerland, painter and sculptor

1907 Birthday - Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957

1906 Event - Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic

1906 Birthday - Albert Hofmann, born in Baden, Switzerland, scientist, first to synthesize, examine, study, the psychedelic effects of LSD

1905 Birthday - Henrich Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold

1905 Event - Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed

1903 Event - 6 km long Engadin-railroad tunnel of Switzerland inaugurated

1901 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Hans Haug, born in Switzerland, composer, primitivist style, wrote solo guitar piece, Preludio, Tiento et Toccata

1900 Event - World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon) links Italy and Switzerland, opens

1898 Death - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet', dies at 73 in Kilchberg, Switzerland

1898 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Alfred Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled, Gold Medal 1924 Olympics

1896 Birthday - Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland, pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist

1895 Birthday - Nahum Goldmann, born in Switzerland, President Zionist World Organization

1895 Birthday - Michel Simon, born in Geneva, Switzerland

1893 Event - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland

1890 Birthday - Frank Martin, born in Geneva, Switzerland, composer, In Terra Fax

1889 Birthday - Enrico Celio, president, born in Switzerland

1888 Birthday - Grock, born in Switzerland, clown

1887 Birthday - Le Corbusier, born in Switzerland, architect, city planner, and artist, Urbanisme

1886 Birthday - Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting

1884 Birthday - Auguste Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist and explorer, balloonist

1884 Birthday - Jean Felix Piccard, born in Switzerland, scientist, explorer, and balloonist

1883 Birthday - Ernest Ansermet, born in Vevey, Switzerland, conductor, Ruilles de Printemps

1882 Birthday - Felix Locher, born in Switzerland, actor, Frankenstein's Daughter

1882 Event - St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens

1881 Event - Triple landslides bury Elm, Switzerland

1880 Birthday - Ernest Bloch, born in Geneva, Switzerland, composer, MacBeth

1880 Event - Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed

1879 Birthday - Paul Klee, born in Switzerland, abstract painter, Twittering Machine,

1877 Birthday - Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946

1874 Event - World Postal Union forms in Bern, Switzerland

1874 Event - Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect

1873 Birthday - Emil Ermatinger, born in Switzerland, literature historian

1871 Event - Mont Cenis railway tunnel Switzerland opens

1866 Birthday - Heinrich Federer, born in Switzerland, writer, Das letzte Stundlein des Papstes

1862 Event - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph

1857 Birthday - Ferdinand de Saussure, born in Switzerland, linguist, Cours de Laguistique Generale

1848 Event - Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland

1845 Birthday - Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919

1834 Birthday - Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902

1833 Birthday - Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902

1829 Birthday - Johanna Spyri, born in Switzerland, writer, Heidi

1828 Birthday - Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901

1827 Birthday - Arnold Bocklin, born in Switzerland, landscape and allegory painter

1825 Birthday - Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, writer, poet, master of the novella, works include 'Das Amulett' or 'The Amulet'

1823 Event - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives

1815 Event - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland

1810 Birthday - Alexandre Calamo, born in Switzerland, painter, etcher and lithographer

1809 Event - Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland

1807 Birthday - Arnold Henry Guyot, born in Switzerland, U.S. geologist, geographer, and meteorologist

1807 Birthday - Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher

1806 Event - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500

1803 Event - Britain declares war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continues interfering in Italy and Switzerland

1798 Event - Republic of Switzerland forms

1761 Birthday - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, born in Switzerland, U.S. minister of Finance, 1801 - 1814

1760 Birthday - Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect

1746 Birthday - Johann H Pestalozzi, born in Zurich, Switzerland, educator, Leonard and Gertrude,

1746 Birthday - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, born in Switzerland, educator

1718 Event - Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53

1708 Birthday - Albrecht von Haller, born in Switzerland, experimental physiology, Academy of Science

1700 Birthday - Daniel Bernoulli, born in Basel, Switzerland, mathematician, 10 time French award

1648 Event - Switzerland's independence recognized

1618 Event - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

1584 Event - Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812)

1583 Death - Thomas Erastus, Switzerland, theologist, dies

1558 Event - Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland

1535 Event - 1st full English translation of the Bible printed in Switzerland

1516 Birthday - Konrad von Gesner, born in Zurich, Switzerland, naturalist, Bibliotheca Universalis

1493 Birthday - Phillippus Paracelsus, born in Switzerland, physician and alchemist, or 11/10

1487 Death - Nicholas van Flue, Swiss saint/patron of Switzerland, dies

1477 Event - Battle at Nancy, Burgundy vs Switzerland, 7000+ killed

1476 Event - Battle at Morat/Murten: Charles the Stout invades Switzerland

1474 Event - Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland

1427 Event - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

1349 Event - Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland

1349 Event - Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland

1349 Event - 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

1348 Event - Jews in Zurich Switzerland are accused of poisoning wells

1294 Event - Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland

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